Islamabad: The Jamaat-ud-Dawa will approach the United Nations to remove restrictions imposed on the group after a Security Council panel declared it a front for the Lashker-e-Toiba terror group, a Jamaat spokesman said on Monday.
We are preparing to approach the UN to get it to take back the restrictions that have been imposed on us. We are not a terrorist group and are only involved in charitable activities," Jamaat spokesman Abdullah Muntazir said.
Speaking four days after the Pakistan government cracked down on the Jamaat and its top leaders, Muntazir told PTI that his group was facing problems in framing a legal challenge to restrictions imposed on it as many activists had either been arrested or gone underground to avoid detention.
"Our communications have been affected, and we have not been able to frame a response as yet. But we do plan to take up this issue with the UN," he said.
The Jamaat has no plans to approach the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as legal experts had informed it that the court could only take up matters raised by national governments.
"The ICJ will not take up cases submitted by entities," Muntazir said.
"We don't expect the Pakistan government to take up our case with the ICJ. Look at the way it spoiled our case in the UN Security Council," he added.
Muntazir alleged that the government had cracked down on the Jamaat without any valid reasons.
"Even in the case of Jamaat amir (chief) Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, he was served papers giving the reasons for his detention three days after he was confined to his home," he said.
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