Canada strips ngo charity status from hizbul mujahideen
India Today, July 21, 2017 A few weeks before the United States declared Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin a global terrorist, two NGOs were quietly stripped of their charity statuses in Canada over suspicion that they had links to the terrorist group. The two NGOs - ISNA (Islamic Society of Northern America) Islamic Services of Canada and the Canadian Islamic Trust Foundation - were former affiliates of the ISNA-Canada, a group that Canadian authorities began auditing in 2011. According to a Global News report , which carries letters written by the Canada Revenue Agency to ISNA Islamic Services, from this week, Canadian authorities suspect that the NGO helped route funding from the country to a purported Pakistani charity whose armed wing is widely believed to be Hizbul Mujahideen. Canadian authorities informed ISNA Islamic Services in March this year that they intended to revoke the NGO's charity status for "not complying" with the Canadian law