WASHINGTON: The United States has said that Pakistan banned the Jamat-ud-Dawah for its own interest and not because Islamabad was warned by the Bush administration that it stood to be branded as a terrorist state.State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack was asked to clarify a statement by the Defence Minister of Pakistan that Islamabad had to ban the Jamaat because if that hadn’t happened, it would have been branded a terrorist state.
“Is that the message the US has sent out?” McCormack was asked.
“No,” he replied.
“Pakistan did this because it saw it in its interest. As we have said many, many times over, the threat from violent extremists is as much a threat to Pakistani people and the Pakistani government as it is to anybody else. All that said, it’s a welcome step that they took,” he said.
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