The Punjab Home Department has issued a list of banned organisations and unregistered charitable institutions in the province, advising citizens to review the list before giving donations to institutions in the holy month.

In an advertisement earlier this week, the provincial government released a list that carried as many as 84 names.

It also advised the citizens to file complaints if the welfare organisations were not fulfilling their duties as claimed, working for personal interests, running a campaign on forgery, or were involved in anti-state and terrorist activities.

According to the Punjab government, the purpose of releasing the list was to ensure that the donation reaches the deserving people.

Below are the names of banned organisations and unregistered charitable institutions

1. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi

2. Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan

3. Jaish-e-Mohammad (Al-Rahmat Trust Bahawalpur and Al-Furqan Trust Karachi)

4. Lashkar-e-Taiba

5. Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan

6. Tehreek-e-Jafaria Pakistan

7. Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi

8. Tehreek-e-Islami

9. Al-Qaeda

10. Millat-e-Islamia Pakistan (formerly known as Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan)

11. Khuddam-ul-Islam (formerl known as Jaish-e-Mohammad)

12. Islami Tehreek Pakistan (formerly known as Tehreek-e-Jafaria Pakistan)

13. Jamiat-ul-Ansar

14. Jamaat-ul-Furqan

15. Hizb-ut-Tahrir

16. Khair-un-Nas International Trust (a splinter group of Jamaat-ud-Dawa)

17. Balochistan Liberation Army

18. Islamic Students Movement of Pakistan

19. Lashkar-e-Islami

20. Ansar-ul-Islam

21. Haji Namdar Group

22. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (Fitnal Khwarij)

23. Balochistan Republican Army

24. Balochistan Liberation Front

25. Lashkar-e-Balochistan

26. Balochistan Liberation United Front

27. Balochistan Musalla Defah Tanzeem

28. Shia Tulaba Action Committee Gilgit

29. Markaz Sabeel Organization Gilgit

30. Tanzeem Naujawanan-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat Gilgit

31. Peoples Aman Committee Lyari

32. Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jamaat (formerly known as Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan)

33. Al-Haramain Foundation

34. Rabita Trust

35. Anjuman Imamia Gilgit Baltistan

36. Muslim Students Organization Gilgit

37. Tanzeem Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jamaat Gilgit

38. Balochistan Bunyad Parast Army

39. Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Aman

40. Tahaffuz Hudood Allah

41. Balochistan Waja Liberation Army

42. Baloch Republican Party Azad

43. Balochistan United Army

44. Islam Mujahideen

45. Jaish-ul-Islam

46. Balochistan National Liberation Army

47. Khana-e-Hikmat Gilgit Baltistan

48. Tehreek-e-Taliban Swat

49. Tehreek-e-Taliban Mohmand

50. Tariq Gidar Group

51. Abdallah Azzam Brigades

52. East Turkmenistan Islamic Movement

53. Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan

54. Islamic Jihad Union

55. 313 Brigade

56. Tehreek-e-Taliban Bajaur

57. Amar bil Maroof Wa Nahi Anil Munkir (Haji Namdaar Group)

58. Baloch Student Organisation Azad

59. United Baloch Army

60. Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz

61. Da’esh (ISIL, IS, ISIS)

62. Jamaat-ul-Ahrar

63. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Al-Alami

64. Ansar-ul-Hussain

65. Tehreek-e-Azadi Jammu and Kashmir

66. Jundullah

67. Al Rahmah Welfare Trust Organization

68. Balawaristan National Front (Abdul Hameed Khan Group)

69. Jamaat-ud-Dawa and its subsidiaries, including Al-Anfal Trust Lahore, Idara Khidmat Khalq Lahore, Al-Dawat ul-Irshad Lahore, Al-Hamd Trust Lahore/Faisalabad, Mosques and Welfare Trust Lahore, Al-Medina Foundation Lahore, and Muaz-bin-Jabal Education Trust.

70. Falah Insaniat Foundation (including Al-Fazl Foundation/Trust Lahore and Al-Ithar Foundation Lahore)

71. Hizb-ul-Ahrar

72. Pak-Turk International CAG Education Foundation

73. Baloch Raji Ajoi Sangar

74. Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz

75. Sindhudesh Revolutionary Army

76. Sindhudesh Liberation Army

77. Khatamul Anbiya

78. Ghazi Force

79. Ghulaman-i-Sahaba

80. Maymar Trust

81. Sachal Sarmast Welfare Trust Karachi

82. Al Jaza Patient Welfare Society Karachi

83. Al Akhtar Trust

84. Al Rashid Trust

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“Providing any kind of assistance to banned organisations is a crime under the Anti-Terro­rism Act, 1997,” the Home Department said.

It warned that strict legal action would be taken against individuals or organisations found assisting banned organisations involved in terrorism and anti-state activities

“Registration with the Punjab Charity Commission is mandatory for charitable organisations in Punjab,” it added.