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<b>Move for U.N. ban on Jamaat fails</b> <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->ISLAMABAD:<b> An attempt by the U.S. to get the Jamaat-ud-daawa included in the United Nations list of proscribed organisations failed after China blocked it for "technical" reasons, it has been reported. </b>

The JuD describes itself a charitable organisation and won praise from the Pakistan Government and international aid agencies for its work during the 2005 earthquake. But the U.S. banned it in April as a front of Lashkar-e-Toiba.

Islamabad has put the group on its "watch list," and its founder Hafeez Saeed was jailed last month, with the Government saying he was a threat to public order. The report said the U.S. wanted the group included in the list of individuals or entities belonging to or associated with the Al-Qaeda and Taliban. But China felt that the demand must originate from the country in whose territory the group exists, the report said. China wanted more proof of the group's linkage to the Taliban or Al-Qaeda to consider the U.S. demand.

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<b>The report said China intervened on behalf of Pakistan.</b>
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