ISLAMABAD (GroundReport) : The United Nations seems to have acquired the ability to ban the movements of the souls of deceased by putting a deceased person Haji Muhammad Ashraf after six years and six months of his death on list of terrorists and asked the world nations to freeze his assets and ban his movements and his ability to arm himself.
Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council through its resolution numbering 1822 of 2008 has banned four members of a Pakistani banned militant organization Lashkar-e-Taiba besides banning three related organizations to this outfit on Thursday. Hafiz Muhammad Saeed considered to be the chief organizer of the group, Zakir Rehman Lakhvi dubbed as chief of operations, Haji Muhammad Ashraf as finance chief and Mahmoud Mohammad Ahmed Bahaziq, a financier and former leader of the group in Saudi Arabia all have been added to a list of individuals and groups subject to an assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo, reports CNN.
Hafiz Saeed is running an organization Jamaat Dawaa and claims innocence besides vowing to challenge this ban while Zakir Lakhvi is already under detention and with the Pakistan army for interrogations for his possible involvement in Mumbai blasts. But the name of Haji Muhammad Ashraf, as the financial manger of the group is shocker because the man died in Sindh on June 11, 2002 at the age of 70. For his links with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET), he was arrested in April 2001 but was released in July of same year. He again was picked up by the security agencies on 30th December 2001 for interrogating him for LET’s involvement in Sherraton Hotel bombing but was dumped at the Civil Hospital, Hyderabad shackled in chains in Feburary 2002, where he died of various medical complications on June 11, 2002 and was buried the same day at Golarchi graveyard, Hyderabad the same day. The haste with which the whole thing was done took the Pakistani representative at UN Hussain Haroon by surprise as he was quoted by the media saying that he was not even consulted before taking such an action. However, US and India have hailed the resolution thus asking Pakistan to take all necessary steps to implement the decision of the UN.
How ironic is this that instead of dealing with the issue of terrorism and militancy, the UN is showing a childish approach and thus undermining not only the issue but the legitimacy of the world body itself?
The time has come to call for revamping the United Nations because instead of becoming a tool for nothing, the world needs a body with the right frame of mind and intellect and not the one filled with goons like Baan ki Moon or other so-called security experts. I hope Moon will rise to the occasion and apologies to the entire world for disgracing the world body and sacking all those working on the Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee.
It’s a serious glitch, how can we assume Pakistan to act or for that matter any other country on the face of earth to take UN seriously when its brains are twisted and tainted who does not know that they are putting a dead man on its list of terrorists. And will the US and other members of the Security Council look into this matter as well and instead of making themselves and the UN a laughing stock should gather their wits and acts to pose as serious to deal with terrorism and militancy as they sound.