South Asia Studies Project

November 15, 2011 Special Dispatch No.4287 At Flood Relief Camps in Pakistani Towns, Lashkar-e-Taiba Leaders Impart Religious Education and Preach Jihad During July-October 2011 when floods devastated Pakistani towns and villages, especially in the Sindh province, the outlawed terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba organized camps to provide food and shelter for the flood-affected people. These relief camps were organized under the banner of Lashkar-e-Taiba's charity arms: Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) and Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF). After the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamaatud Dawa were outlawed by the UN Security Council as terrorist organizations. Last year, the Pakistani media raised a storm over a visit of Rajiv Shah, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Aid (USAID), to a flood relief camp at Sukkur in Sindh set up by Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation, saying that the FIF was a front organization for Lashkar-e-Taiba. The full text of this report is available to MEMRI's Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor Subscribers. Subscription information is available at this link. JTTM subscribers can visit this page to view the report.