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Article: Mumbai terror group exploits refugee crisis
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 14, 2009
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Exclusive Pakistan comes under fire for failure to shut 'charity'
AN ISLAMIST charity accused of links to the militant
fundamentalists blamed for the Mumbai terror attacks has resurfaced
at the centre of the aid effort to help hundreds of thousands of
refugees fleeing Pakistan's war on the Taliban.
Six months after Pakistan, under international pressure, outlawed
the charity said to be a front for the militant group Lashkar-e-
Taiba (LeT), The Independent has discovered that scores of
volunteers from the charity are openly working to ferry refugees
from the edge of the conflict zone to emergency camps and hospitals.
They are also providing food, water and first aid.
Despite a government ...