LAHORE: Hafiz Saeed's Jammat-ud-Dawa is all set to enter the political scenario in Pakistan as a senior member of the outfit said it would contest the 2018 general elections. Front for terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, the JuD announced that it would launch the Milli Muslim League (MML). Sheikh Yaqoob, a JuD-backed candidate who was defeated by ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif's wife Kulsoon Nawaz from a parliamentary seat that fell vacant after he was disqualified by the Supreme Court, said the front “will field candidates in every constituency of the country in next year's election.”
“We have got a good response in NA-120. It was our first election and people have welcomed. We are here to stay in the political field. People want a party that talks about making Pakistan strong against its enemies- India, United States, and Israel, and at the same time help them in solving their basic livelihood problems,” he said. Yaqoob was placed on a US treasury sanctions list of those designated as leaders of terrorist organisations, in 2012. The MML was formed when Saeed was put under house arrest in Lahore.
JuD was declared a foreign terrorist organisation by the United States in June 2014.
