LONDON: The Pakistan Taliban will be banned under Britain government plans, making it illegal to belong to or raise funds for the organisation in UK, Home Secretary Theresa May said Tuesday.
Membership of the group, the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), would become a criminal offence and the organisation would not be able to raise funds or lawfully operate in the UK under the British Terrorism Act, she said while introducing the order.
The plan needs legislative approval, in parliament on Monday and it will be debated later this week.
The move to proscribe the group was a ‘tough but necessary power to tackle terrorism’, May said. “I have laid an order which will proscribe Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan,” she said.
During the worst floods in Pakistan’s history last summer, the Pakistan Taliban, an umbrella group of militants based in nearby North and South Waziristan, threatened that they may launch attacks against foreign flood relief workers in the country, saying their presence was ‘unacceptable’.
TTP spokesman Azam Tariq claimed that the US and other countries were not really focused on providing aid to flood victims, but had other ‘intentions’ which he did not specify.
The Home Secretary’s order will now be debated in both the Commons and the Lords.
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