New Delhi: After lying low for more than a year following the 26/11 Mumbai attacks Lashkar-e-Toiba's front organisation Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) is back in business.
The Jamaat is holding a Yakjaiti-e-Kashmir (Kashmir Solidarity conference) at Muzaffarabad in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir on Thursday.
Terror group Hizbul Mujahideen commander Syed Salahuddin, Jamaat leader Abdul Rehman Makki and former ISI chief Hamid Gul are likely to attend the conference.
JuD is also planning more such conferences across Pakistan in the coming weeks.
The conference in Islamabad will be addressed by JuD chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the alleged mastermind of the 26/11 attacks.
The development comes at a time when the Centre has begun to concede that Pakistan is acting against the Lashkar and the 26/11 perpetrators.
After the 26/11 terror attacks, the United Nations banned the JuD and its chief
Saeed was placed under house arrest by the Pakistani government.
However, Saeed was later released as the Pakistani government failed to substantiate the charges levelled against him.
The conference in Muzaffarabad is being held after a gap of several years as such gatherings were not permitted by authorities after former dictator Pervez Musharraf clamped down on jehadi groups following an assurance to New Delhi that Pakistani soil would not be used for anti-India activities.
Indian government sources said that if the reports of the terror meeting is true then it is a matter of great concern for the country.
Sources said that the meeting clearly showed that Jamaat-ud-Dawa was not a charity organisation as Pakistan has been claiming and is one more proof that territory in Pakistan was still being used for anti-India terror activities.
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