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ISLAMABAD: The interior ministry released a list of 31 banned organisations on Saturday.
Most of the organisations had been earlier but People’s Aman Committee of Karachi, Shia Tulaba Action Committee, Markaz Sabeel Organisation and Tanzeem-i-Naujawanan-i-Sunnat of Gilgit-Baltistan have been added to the list.
The list has counted several militant outfits operating under new names as different organisations. Jaish-i-Muhammad and Khuddam-ul-Islam are two names of the same organisation. Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan and Tehreek-i-Jafaria Pakistan have changed their names to Millat-i-Islamia Pakistan and Islami Tehreek, respectively. They have been mentioned as separate entities.
Lashkar-i-Taiba is on the list but its changed name — Jamaatud Dawa — is missing.
The organisations on the list are: Al Qaeda, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, Sipah-i-Muhammad Pakistan, Tehrik-i-Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Muhammadi, Jamiat-ul Ansar, Jamiat-ul-Furqan, Hizb-ut-Tehrir, Khair-un-Naas International Trust, Islamic Students Movement, Lashkar-i-Islam, Haji Namdar Group, Balochistan Liberation Army, Balochistan Republican Army, Balochistan Liberation Front, Lashkar-i-Balochistan, Balochistan Liberation United Front and Balochistan Musallah Difa Tanzeem.
Some of the organisations operating under new names have not been listed.
Several of the banned organisations had political cover. Tehreek-i-Jafaria remained part of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal and Sipah-i-Sahaba was an ally of the PML-Q when Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf was in power.
