Sacrificial skins fund Pakistani terror groups
17/10/2013
UK publication The Guardian spoke to an official from the Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation charitable wing of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the reincarnation of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a banned organisation dedicated to fighting jihad against India. "For us it is second only to Ramadan for our income," he said.
The organisation hopes to collect 100,000 hides from around the country this year.
Officials say around half of the 24 groups that applied for the right to set up street stalls to collect hides in Islamabad were rejected after they were found to be front organisations.
Charities, including the Edhi Foundation, a much-respected social welfare group, are losing market share. "It's hard to complete because they have more manpower from all their religious seminaries," said a representative of the foundation.
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