Islamabad: The five Pakistani militant outfits, including Jaish-e-Muhammad and Lashkar-e-Toiba, which were banned in 2002 by President Pervez Musharraf following mounting international pressure, are back in business with changed identities, a media report said on September 10.

After the initial crackdown on them following the January 12, 2002 ban, these five jehadi outfits are back in business with changed names and identities, Pakistan magazine 'Herald' quoting a report by Pakistani Intelligence said in its latest issue.

Four of Pakistan's top sectarian outfits have effectively regrouped and are operating their respective networks as openly as before though under different names, it said.

"According to a report prepared by Pakistani intelligence earlier this year to assess the situation a year after the ban was enforced, the move has failed to check either the activities or the relentless funding of these terror outfits from all corners of the world," it said.

The military dominated government in Pakistan has been able to do little to stop the "relentless funding" from Saudi Arabia and other countries to the terror groups, even in cases where Pakistani missions abroad were aware of the identities of financial sponsors of these organisations, it said.

JeM, which was formed by Maulana Masood Azhar after his release from an Indian prison following the hijacking of Indian Airlines plane from Kathmandu to Kandahar in 1999, now operates under a new name 'Khadam-e-Islam' and its military training camps in Batrasi and Syed Ahmad Shaeed in Manshera and Balaskots are back in action, the report said.

PTI