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UN Orders Sanctions On Pak Group, Three individuals - Empire? - Global Policy Forum UN Orders Sanctions On Pak Group, Three individuals
Associated Press
December 27, 2001
The UN Security Council has ordered a global freeze on the assets of a Pakistani organization, two former nuclear scientists and a Pakistani industrialist suspected of links to Osama Bin Laden.
The council's committee monitoring sanctions against Afghanistan added the Ummah Tameer-e-Nau group and the three Pakistanis - Sultan Bashir-ud-Din Mahmood, Abdul Majid, and Mohammed Tufail - to its quickly growing list of individuals and organizations linked to Bin Laden.
The council move makes it mandatory for all 189 UN member nations to freeze any assets belonging to the group and the three individuals.
On December 20, the US administration declared Ummah Tameer-e-Nau a terrorist group and ordered the group's assets frozen along with those of the three Pakistani men.
Ummah Tameer-e-Nau was founded by a retired nuclear scientist to run development projects in Afghanistan and is suspected of having links to Bin Laden and Taliban spiritual leader Mullah Mohamme Omar.
Mahmood and Majid are Pakistani nuclear scientists who had been detained on suspicion of sharing technical information Bin Laden. They worked for Pakistan's Atomic Energy Commission until retiring in 1999. They then managed a charity organization, Tameer-e-Ummah, or "Nation Builder," and made several trips to Afghanistan, where they met Bin Laden, but say they were simply doing charity work.
Both denied transferring any nuclear-related information to Afghanistan and said they only ran education programs and helped poor Afghan farmers. Mahmood claimed he talked with Bin Laden about plans for the rehabilitation of Afghanistan.
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