Islamabad: Pakistan-based Jamaat-ud-Dawa, banned by the UN Security Council as a terrorist organisation, today claimed that it had no "alliance" with the Lashkar-e-Toiba which is blamed for the Mumbai attacks.

"We are engaged in educational and welfare activities inside Pakistan while the LeT is fighting against Indian rule in Kashmir," JuD spokesman Abdullah Muntazir said.

JuD has "no alliance with LeT," he claimed in an interview to a private Indian channel, when asked about Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's remarks that the group s members are linked to LeT.

"It is totally misconception," Muntazir said of Gilani s comments.

He alleged that the Indian media was engaged in "false propaganda" against JuD and termed the recent interview of the outfit's chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed to Outlook magazine as "fake".

"On the basis of these media reports the US went to the UN Security Council and that (banning of JuD) was a biased move by the Security Council," he told CNN-IBN.

On the whereabouts of Saeed, he said the JuD leader is under house arrest in Lahore.

The JuD spokesman also lashed out at the Pakistan government and said the kind of crackdown it had unleashed on his organisation was not even demanded by the UN.

"It has gone far ahead than what was asked by the UN and has put 10 of our leaders under house arrest", he alleged.
Source : PTI