Pakistan to Contest Alleged Terror Group Entering Politics
- U.S. on Monday designated MML as a terrorist organisation
- Pakistan’s interior minister says court ruling to be ‘undone’
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Pakistan’s Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal said the government will challenge an interim legal ruling that allows a U.S.-proscribed terrorist organization to contest national elections due to be held this summer.
Last month, a high court ordered the country’s election agency to register the Mili Muslim League as a political party. The group is supported by Hafiz Saeed, the suspected planner of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and on Monday the U.S. designated the MML as a terror group and placed sanctions on seven of its leaders. Washington said the organization is attempting to undermine Pakistan’s political process and is a front for militant outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba.