Pakistan flood aid from Islamic extremists

[dipsydoodle]

Source: Daily Telegraph

There is not a United Nations pick-up or Pakistani government official in sight at the small but efficient relief camp, close to the north-west Pakistani town of Nowshera.

Instead the food is provided by a hardline Islamist charity linked to terrorists blamed for the 2008 attacks on Mumbai. Two years after it was supposed to be banned, Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) members are working under a new name providing food, medicine and wads of rupee notes to hundreds of thousands of people affected by devastating floods.

Similar makeshift camps run by Falah-e-Insaniat, the group's latest incarnation, are in operation across the land, raising fears that charities linked to militants are using the catastrophe to win hearts, minds and influence.

The trend is all the more alarming because they are filling a vacuum left by the democratically-elected government, increasingly vulnerable to fury from flood survivors about its failures to provide aid.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/7957988/Pakistan-flood-aid-from-Islamic-extremists.html

[KoKo]

1. Remember that old quote: "All Politics is Local." Seems to apply here.

Who are ya gonna trust....Drones who are attacking you...or folks who can give you instant aid?

Things get very complicated in disasters......

[sabrina 1]

2. Good points, it's so easy for people who are sitting in their

comfortable homes to criticize those whose very lives, and those of their children, are on the line.

Also, the Telegraph is a very slanted newspaper. They should simply report facts, instead of editorializing. Eg when they refer to the extremist group rather than state the fact that they are banned in Pakistan, they insert the word 'supposed' to be banned. All other news reports simply stated the fact that banned extremist groups are helping those in need right now.

[cosmicone]

3. It is actually Pakistani government behind all these outfits ...

ISI started Lashkar e Taiba which became Jamaat ud Dawa which became Falah e Insaniyat. Same product, new packaging.

Nothing can be done in Pakistan without the blessings of the military and ISI ... how is it that the same individuals are able to reincorporate yet another orhanization? That would be like Bernie Madoff starting a new investment fund and raising investments again!!