Harkat-ul Mujahideen assets frozen

By B. Muralidhar Reddy

ISLAMABAD, SEPT. 26. The U.S. decision to freeze the accounts of terrorist outfits on its list appears to have had its repercussions here as the Harkat-ul Mujahideen is among the 27 organisations and individuals that figure in it.

A report in Pakistani Urdu daily Khabren quoted the Harkat spokesman, Mr. Amiruddin Mughal, as saying that the Pakistan government had disconnected telephone lines of the outfit's offices in Islamabad, Lahore and other parts of the country.

It said all the top leaders of the outfit, including the secretary-general, Maulana Fazlur Rehman Khalil, had gone underground. Pakistan might also announce a ban on the activities of Harkat in the next few days. The Government has also frozen the financial assets of the two militant outfits identified by the U.S.

The paper said the Al Rasheed Trust, another organisation banned by the U.S., claimed it had nothing to do with terrorist activities and was working in Afghanistan on humanitarian grounds.

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