Foreign Terrorist Organizations - Essay Example

The organization that I have picked is a group which is named Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, a Kashmir-based freedom fighting group.

Historically, Kashmir has been classified as a disputed territory according to the resolutions of the UN charter. In 1989, the Indian Army broke out the war against the freedom fighters of Kashmir and made propaganda against those fighters and called them militants and terrorists. However, they were not terrorists but they were put into these militant activities by the Indian Army. After 9/11, when America officially started its war against terrorism, it banned all those freedom fighters across the world and denoted them as FTO.

Lashkar–e–Tayyiba was also banned and its main leaders got arrested. Later on, there was a reunion took place, and the organization redeveloped with a new name of Jamat-ud-Dawah. The organization is quite famous in the territory of Kashmir as it worked tremendously well in the times of the 2005 earthquake in which around 73,000 people lost their lives (DAWN.COM, 2010). A year ago, the Supreme Court of Pakistan also released the leaders of Jamat-ud-Dawah from the allegations of terrorism and militancy activities as no allegation against those leaders was proved.