The under-fire agency gave thousands of dollars to Michigan-based HHRD that had ties with Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF) & Milli Muslim League (MML), also banned in US.
The sentencing comes a day after JuD leader Hafiz Saeed's spokesperson Yahya Mujahid was handed down another 15 years in jail by a Pakistani court in a terror-financing case.
Pakistan counter-terrorism agency NACTA, set up in 2009, is a toothless body, severely understaffed & caught in the country's military-civilian discord.
Hafiz Saeed's Jamaat-ud-Dawa and the associated Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation were among 70 organisations proscribed by the Ministry of Interior under the Anti-Terrorism Act.
Hafiz Saeed's organisations are portrayed as charities and run hospitals & schools. His latest move was to float a political party, a way to 'legitimise' himself.
The Legal Adviser in the Permanent Mission of India to the UN, in a veiled reference to Pakistan, said some states were sponsoring terrorists to fulfil their political agenda.
The dynamics between Europe and Russia have gone so south that mending fences looks like an uphill task—even as the US swings between sanctions and olive branches.
Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.
President of India has honoured 16 BSF personnel with gallantry medals for show of exemplary courage in the 87-hour ‘war’ between India and Pakistan that followed the launch of Op Sindoor.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
The USAID was always a mischief maker. It helped and assisted terrorists and criminals as along as it suited the interests of the USA. It paid huge sums to media houses which spread pro-US propaganda in their respective nations.
You are also funded by USAid. Come on, be honest for once.
The USAID was always a mischief maker. It helped and assisted terrorists and criminals as along as it suited the interests of the USA. It paid huge sums to media houses which spread pro-US propaganda in their respective nations.