Abdullah Muntazir is an expert on Islamic militancy based in

Islamabad Islamabad (; , ; ) is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's tenth-most populous city with a population of over 1.1 million and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capital Territory. Bu ...

, Pakistan. In 1997, he started his journalistic career as a special correspondent for ''

Daily Ausaf ''Ausaf'' () is an international Urdu daily newspaper which is being published simultaneously from Islamabad, Lahore, Multan, Muzaffarabad, Gilgit, Frankfurt and London. Its chief editor is Mehtab Khan. Mohsin Bilal Khan is Editor of daily Au ...

'', an Islamabad-based

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newspaper published in

Muzaffarabad Muzaffarabad (; , IPA: ʊzəfːərɑːbɑːd is a city in Pakistani-administered Azad Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. The application of the term "administered" to the various regions of Kashmir and a mention of the Kashmir dispute ...

, the capital of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. He also worked for ''Daily Asas'' (another Islamabad-based Urdu newspaper) as a correspondent from Muzaffarabad for a short period of time. He is founder editor of '' Weekly Ghazwah'', an Urdu newspaper once run by the Islamic charity and proselytization/preaching organization

Jamaat-ud-Dawah Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) is a Pakistani Islamist militant organization driven by a Salafi jihadist ideology. The organisation's primary stated objective is to merge the whole of Kashmir with Pakistan. It was founded in 1985–1986 by Hafiz Saeed, ...

, accused of being the front group for prime suspects of the

2008 Mumbai attacks The 2008 Mumbai attacks, also referred to as 26/11 attacks, were a series of coordinated Islamic terrorism, Islamist terrorist attacks that took place in November 2008, when 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based Islamist terrorist o ...

. This newspaper was banned in December 2008 when the Government of Pakistan outlawed

, complying with the United Nations Security Council’s Taliban and Al Qaeda Sanction Committee’s decision to proscribe the charity. The charity has challenged the Security Council ban, claiming that the allegations are baseless, and has filed an appeal for delisting. Muntazir had also served as

’s spokesman for international media, from 2005 to January 2009, but when the

was outlawed in Pakistan he left the charity in early 2009 to resume his journalistic career. He has continued to work with independent media. He worked as in-charge discussion forum Daily Khabrain Lahore (2003), and was a sub-editor for Daily Pakistan Lahore (2002) and Daily Khabrain Lahore (2003). In the past ten years, he contributed many articles on national, international, social and religious issues for different Urdu and English newspapers. In 2012, the

United States Department of the Treasury The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the Treasury, national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States. It is one of 15 current United States federal executive departments, U.S. government departments. ...

applied sanctions against Abdullah Muntazir, prohibiting US persons from engaging in transactions with him. He has challenged treasury department sanctions and his case is under review.

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his blog
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