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Professional background
As a law librarian, Professor Clough brings over twenty-five years of experience to UMass Law. Prior to his arrival at Southern New England School of Law, he spent six years on Beacon Hill as the Assistant Director/Head of Reference at the State Library for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts where he provided library services to the Governor's office, executive branch agencies, and the General Court.
Earlier in his career, Spencer was the Associate Director for Public Services at the University of Connecticut School of Law library. He served as an Associate Librarian at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and began his library career while a law student at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law.
Professor Clough is admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, the American Association of Law Libraries, the American Bar Association, and the American Library Association, he is also an elected member of the library trustees for the Kingston Public Library in and a founding member of the Kingston Public Library Foundation Kingston, Massachusetts.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A Swiss pharmaceutical giant, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd today agreed to plead guilty and pay a record $500 million criminal fine for leading a worldwide conspiracy to raise and fix prices and allocate market shares for certain vitamins sold in the United States and elsewhere, the Department of Justice announced. A German firm, BASF Aktiengesellschaft, also will plead guilty and pay a $225 million fine for its role in the same antitrust conspiracy, the Department said.
In separate one-count criminal cases filed today in U.S. District Court in Dallas, the Department of Justice charged the corporations with conspiring to fix, raise, and maintain prices, and allocate the sales volumes of vitamins sold by them and other unnamed co-conspirator companies in the U.S. and elsewhere. The cases also allege that the companies allocated contracts for vitamin premixes for customers throughout the U.S. and rigged the bids for those contracts.
The conspiracy lasted from January 1990 into February 1999 and affected the vitamins most commonly used as nutritional supplements or to enrich human food and animal feed -- vitamins A, B2, B5, C, E, and Beta Carotene. Vitamin premixes, which are used to enrich breakfast cereals and numerous other processed foods were also affected by the conspiracy, the Department said.
"These prosecutions demonstrate that we will not allow international cartels to prey on American consumers in our globalized economy," said Attorney General Janet Reno. "Those currently engaged in or contemplating similar conduct should take note of the high cost of getting caught ñ $500 million is not only a record fine in an antitrust case, but it is the largest fine the Justice Department has ever obtained in any criminal case."
The Department today also charged Dr. Kuno Sommer, former Director of Worldwide Marketing, Hoffmann-La Roche Vitamins and Fine Chemicals Division, with participating in the vitamin cartel and for lying to Department investigators in 1997 in an attempt to cover-up the conspiracy. Dr. Sommer, a Swiss citizen, has agreed to submit to the jurisdiction of the U.S. District Court in Dallas, plead guilty to both charges, serve a four-month prison term, and pay a $100,000 fine.
"This conspiracy has affected more than five billion dollars of commerce in products found in every American household," said Joel I. Klein, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Department's Antitrust Division. "During the life of the conspiracy, virtually every American consumer paid artificially inflated prices for vitamins and vitamin enriched foods in order to feed the greed of these defendants and their co-conspirators who reaped hundreds of millions of dollars in additional revenues."
Including today's cases, there have been nine prosecutions in the ongoing investigation of the worldwide vitamin industry and the latest in a series of international conspiracy cases filed by the Department's Antitrust Division in the last several years. Hoffmann-La Roche, BASF, and Sommer are cooperating with the investigation.
The Department also confirmed the announcement by Rhone-Poulenc, SA, the French Pharmaceutical Company, that it has been cooperating with the investigation under the Antitrust Division's Corporate Leniency Program. Under the Leniency Program, a company may qualify for protection from criminal prosecution if it voluntarily reports its involvement in a crime and satisfies certain other criteria.
"The cooperation of Rhone Poulenc, together with information being provided by others, led directly to the charges filed today and the decision of the defendants not to contest the charges and to cooperate with our investigation," said Gary R. Spratling, the Antitrust Division's Deputy Assistant Attorney General for criminal enforcement. "Rhone Poulenc conspired with Hoffmann-La Roche and BASF, but the information provided by Rhone Poulenc was what the Division needed to crack the largest antitrust conspiracy uncovered to date." Spratling also said that once Hoffmann-La Rouche and BASF decided to step forward and accept responsibility for their actions, they each provided a level of cooperation nothing less than exemplary.
According to the charges, Hoffmann-La Roche and BASF agreed with the world's other major vitamin manufacturers to suppress and eliminate competition in the U.S. and elsewhere. The criminal cases charge that Hoffmann-La Roche, BASF, and Sommer, with unnamed co- conspirators:
The two-count criminal case against Sommer charges him with participating in the same vitamin conspiracy and lying to the Department of Justice by providing false, fictitious and fraudulent information to investigators when he was questioned about the vitamin conspiracy.
Klein said, "The prosecution of Dr. Sommer should send the message that foreign borders will not serve as a sanctuary from prosecution for individuals who conspire to steal from U.S. businesses and consumers. Those who lie, obstruct, and attempt to cover-up the truth in our investigations will be prosecuted and punished for those crimes as well."
The defendants in all three cases are charged with violating Section One of the Sherman Act, which carries a maximum fine of $10 million for corporations, and a maximum penalty of three years imprisonment and a $350,000 fine for individuals.
Sommer was also charged with providing false statements to a government official, a violation of 18 U.S.C. ß 1001, which carries a maximum penalty of five years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.
The maximum fine for both corporations and individuals may be increased to twice the gain derived from the crime or twice the loss suffered by the victims of the crime, if either of those amounts is greater than the statutory maximum fine.
At sentencing, the court will determine the appropriate sentence to be imposed under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and whether to accept the plea agreements and impose the agreed- upon sentences. The dollars received from this fine will be deposited into the Crime Victims Fund, which is used to provide financial compensation and direct services to victims of crime and training and technical assistance for victim advocates, criminal justice professionals, and allied professionals across the country. The fund is supported by fines paid by federal criminal offenders, not taxpayers, and is administered by the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC).
The three cases are the result of an investigation conducted by the Antitrust Division's Dallas Field Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Dallas.
Statement of Assistant Attorney General Joel I. Kline
May 20, 1999
The cases that we have just filed demonstrate the Antitrust Division's continuing commitment to prosecute international cartels that fix prices charged to American businesses and consumers. The vitamin cartel is the most pervasive and harmful criminal antitrust conspiracy ever uncovered. The criminal conduct of these companies hurt the pocketbook of virtually every American consumer -- anyone who took a vitamin, drank a glass of milk, or had a bowl of cereal.
These companies have agreed to pay the largest criminal fines in antitrust history -- nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars in all -- because they were caught flagrantly violating the law. In addition, for the first time in our history, a European national will plead guilty and, subject to court approval, will serve four months in prison. This too reflects the serious nature of the illegal activities that we uncovered. This cartel was truly extraordinary. It lasted almost a decade and involved a highly sophisticated and elaborate conspiracy to control everything about the sale of these products. These companies fixed the price; they allocated sales volumes; they allocated customers; and in the United States they even rigged bids to make absolutely sure that their cartel would work. The conspirators actually held "annual meetings" to fix prices and to carve up world markets, as well as frequent follow-up meetings to ensure compliance with their illegal scheme. The enormous effort that went into maintaining this conspiracy reflects the magnitude of the illegal revenues it generated as well as the harm it inflicted on the American economy.
Let me be clear about this: contrary to what some have suggested, these kinds of cartels are by no means transient or unstable. They are powerful and sophisticated and, without intervention by antitrust authorities, will often go on indefinitely.
Indeed, during the past several years the Division has uncovered international cartels operating in a broad spectrum of commerce, including food and feed additives, chemicals, graphite electrodes (used in steel making), and marine construction and transportation services. In many of the prosecutions, the conspirator corporations were fined tens of millions of dollars -- ADM was fined $100 million for its role in the lysine and citric acid conspiracy; UCAR paid a $110 million fine for its participation in the graphite electrodes conspiracy; and SGL recently agreed to pay a $135 million for its role in the graphite electrodes conspiracy -- prior to today, the largest antitrust fine in history. This fiscal year alone, which is less than 2/3 over, we have already secured more than $900 million in criminal fines: more than three times our previous annual record; in fact, more than the total amount of fines in the entire history of U.S. antitrust enforcement.
Fines of this magnitude are absolutely necessary if we are going to deter these illegal cartels. It is now clear that, at least with respect to this conspiracy, even $100 million fines were not an adequate deterrent. Indeed, the members of the vitamin cartel, including Hoffman- LaRoche, continued to regularly meet and carry out their global agreement even while Hoffmann-LaRoche was being investigated, prosecuted, and fined $14 million in March 1997 for participating in the citric acid cartel.
With the imposition of the fines and prison sentence in these cases, we are hopeful that multinational companies who currently are engaged in cartel activity or who are faced with the opportunity to do so in the future will assess their risks differently and will think twice before ripping off America's consumers and businesses.
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ISOC's Rough Guide to IETF 76's Hot Topics summerized the 6LoWPAN WG and 6LowApp BOF at IETF 76 as follows:
6lowpan (IPv6 over Low power WPAN)
The 6lowpan WG deals with the use of IPv6 over low powered networks (such as sensornets). This is protocol development for devices on "the Internet of Things". The basic concept in 6lowpan is that IP may become a unifying layer for low powered devices for interoperability, potentially over the Internet.
6lowpan is intensely focused on developing the protocols to enable this to happen.
Full charter: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/6lowpan-charter.html
Some progress should be made in closing on standardization of a couple of documents (specifically the Neighbor Discovery document).This working group has been going on for some time and has a sense of urgency now due to the SmartGrid efforts currently gaining a lot of attention in the United States.
Agenda: http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/09nov/agenda/6lowpan.txt
(10 November, 13:00-15:00)
6lowapp (Application Protocols for Low-power v6 Networks) BOF
6LOWAPP is a BOF considering whether different protocols, or modifications to existing protocols, are needed for very low power devices that may proliferate for sensor type networks. There is a great deal of enthusiasm not just to define the work of a potential working group coming out of this BOF but also to start defining problems and protocols. The mailing list for this BOF has a lot of traffic and the BOF promises to be vigorous.
Agenda: http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/09nov/agenda/6lowapp.txt
(9 November, 13:00-15:00)
More: ISOC's Rough Guide to IETF 76's Hot Topics
Monday, November 30, 2009
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When Microsoft first displayed its Surface computer last year, many believed that it would have no chance of becoming a viable consumer product for quite some time. In fact, the company said that a consumer version would take at least five years.
However, Microsoft on Thursday said that Surface development is going well and consumers may be able to get their hands on it a full two years ahead of schedule.
Three-year time window
"In the three-year time window, we absolutely see how to get there," Microsoft's Tom Gibbons told Fortune. "If we can beat that, we'll try to beat that."
But before it can make promises, Microsoft said it first needs to work out its distribution issues with its business customers that will be using the Surface computer much sooner than consumers.
Still some time to wait
"We're running a couple of months later than I'd like with our deployments," Gibbons said in the interview. "While I was hoping we'd have something out now, we'll definitely have something out in the next couple of months."
So far, Microsoft is unwilling to commit to an exact release date, but judging by the progress it has made, look for the Surface sooner rather than later.


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365 Prophecies: Prophecy 345
The three "Shepherds" who were responsible for Jesus death, "abhorred" Him. (Abhorred: To regard with disgust and hatred.)
Old Testament Prediction:
Zechariah 11:8b I dismissed the three shepherds in one month. My soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
New Testament Fulfillment:
Luke 23:11 Then Herod, with his men of war, treated Him with contempt and mocked Him, arrayed Him in a gorgeous robe, and sent Him back to Pilate.
Matthew 26:3-4 Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people assembled at the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, 4 and plotted to take Jesus by trickery and kill Him.
Matthew 27:1-2 When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people plotted against Jesus to put Him to death. And when they had bound Him, they led Him away and delivered Him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
Luke 23:1-2 Then the whole multitude of them arose and led Him to Pilate. And they began to accuse Him, saying, "We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, saying that He Himself is Christ, a King."
The true reasons behind the hatred of the leaders of Israel towards Jesus, may never be known. A likely motive was their fear of Jesus claim to be the King of the Jews. If He was accepted as the King of Israel, what would happen to their coveted positions of leadership? The coming of the Messiah would upset the peace of Jerusalem and cause such an uprising that the Roman government would dispatch troops to Jerusalem to crush the revolt—removing the current rulers of Israel from their coveted positions of power and wealth, or so they imagined.
Three of these leaders, Caiaphas, Pilate, and Herod, were all "dismissed" from their rulership, in fulfillment of Prophecy 344, shortly after Jesus death and resurrection.
Here in this 345th prophecy, Zechariah believed that it was important to tell us what was behind the treatment of Jesus by these men—they "abhorred" Him. The people who participated in the six unlawful trials of Jesus, cared nothing for justice. They were consumed with hatred and filled with fear for what they imagined might happen if He was received as the Messiah. It is truly incredible when we consider that these men were very likely denying the Messiah, strictly because they feared the loss of their positions of authority. There is no limit to the grave errors that can be committed when fear fills our heart and causes us to imagine things that we think will take place.
In reality, if these men had correctly considered what the coming of the Messiah would mean for them personally, as well as the nation, they would have welcomed Him immediately. The Bible is filled with scriptures that describe what will happen when the Messiah returns to earth to establish His kingdom. Those who have waited for Him, and anticipated His arrival, will be set up as co rulers in the Messiah's newly established government. Had the leaders of Israel been ready for Jesus when He came and received Him nationally, they would have received positions of greater leadership and responsibility than they had enjoyed before He arrived.
Jesus is not coming to diminish our lives, but to enhance them.
John 10:10 (Jesus speaking) …I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
As it turned out, these leaders of Israel lost their cherished titles on earth, as well as the eternal life the Messiah died to make possible. If we are to receive all that God has planned for us, we must let go of all pride, fear, and doubts. Only by trusting in the goodness of God can we appropriate to our life all that He has planned for us.
Hebrews 11:6 And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him. (NLT)
Zechariah predicts their error
From the moment that these men purposed to condemn Jesus to death, God determined to make certain that they would lose their positions as leaders of Israel, in fulfillment of Zechariah's prophecy.
This is always the case for those who refuse to surrender their lives to Jesus because of what they fear would be lost. Those who live only for themselves, will find at the end of their lives that they will have missed out on the endless abundance that God had planned for them—if only they would have surrendered fully to His will.
These men precipitated a self fulfilling prophecy by yielding to their fears and crucifying the Lord of Glory.
All those who will deny and reject Jesus will have eternity to live with the regrets of that decision.
Why people reject Jesus
It is certain that many of the leaders of Israel were aware that Jesus fulfilled all of the predictions spoken by their prophets. These men were not lacking evidence for the identity of Jesus as the Messiah, they were deficient in their will to accept Him.
For those who will not come to Jesus and follow Him, it is never really a matter of evidence, the barrier to faith is the will. When a person has a predisposition to a particular idealism, it is nearly impossible to sway them away from their firm position. There are many people today on the earth who will fail to receive Jesus as their Savior, not due to an insufficiency of evidence, but simply because they do not want to receive Him. Like the leaders of Israel, people today are afraid that it will cost them far too much to surrender their lives to the Lord. Over the many years that I have known Jesus as my Savior I have witnessed numerous individuals who have rejected Him for decades, only to fall at His feat in the final months of their life. Thankfully the Lord is very merciful and kind and He will receive a person even at their last breath.
This book presents hundreds of compelling proofs for the existence of God, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the empirical basis for faith in Jesus Christ for salvation. It would be impossible for any sincere person to come into contact with this evidence without it affecting their consideration of Jesus claims upon their life.
It has been my observation in discussing evidence for faith in Jesus Christ with non believers that most people have a predisposition for denying the existence of God. No rational person who is honestly seeking proof for God will ever conclude that there is insufficient evidence. In fact, the proof is overwhelming and compelling. The inability to believe in God originates from a heart that choses not to believe, not due to a lack of evidence.
After presenting an extensive list of compelling proof to one young man who claimed there was "no evidence for the existence of God," he told me "you have proven nothing."
I replied: "I have proven that evidence is not the barrier to your belief in Jesus Christ, it is your will that hinders you."
In reality, it is never a lack of evidence that prevents anyone from believing in God, or the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for our sins, as the basis for salvation—it is the lack of will to want to believe.
The following locations in this book present hundreds of empirical proofs for God, as well as the facts of Jesus death and resurrection. If you are looking for compelling reasons to believe, you will find them here:
The Certainty of the Resurrection.
The Moment of Creation.
Evidence for the existence of God.
The Crucifixion of Jesus.
The Resurrection of Jesus
The Predictions of Jesus.
Prophecies of Scientific knowledge.
Ph.d's who believe in God and Creation.
To the unbeliever.
There are some who will take up this book while vigorously protesting the existence of God. There must remain some deep recess of the heart which hungers to believe. I have taken a particular curiosity in certain individuals who expend great efforts in convincing those who follow Jesus, that they do not believe. It seems that when a person has reached a place of conviction the need to prove their conclusions must end. Those who follow Christian chat sites, articles on the Bible or Jesus Christ, only to stand in opposition to those beliefs, appear to do so because they have yet to be convinced themselves that their stance against God is firm.
I would imagine that one of the purposes for your purchase of this book, was curiosity. I certainly understand inquisitiveness, it was my own unanswered questions which compelled me to conduct a search for answers some 37 years ago. When I discovered the phenomenon of Bible Prophecy, immediately I wondered how someone could know what was going to happen in the future with perfect accuracy. When I realized that only a being transcendent of time could possibly know these things, I was convinced that there must be in existence, an entity of infinite wisdom and power. The fact that He had left us proof for His existence by many evidence based facts, caused me to begin my own search for more information. It has been nearly four decades and everyday I am stunned again and again by a new revelation for the existence of this amazing being known as "God."
The most subjective experience for the existence of God is understood by those who know Him by first hand knowledge. Unlike religion, knowing God through Jesus Christ allows us to experience Him up close and personal. Throughout my day I am constantly aware of His presence, His guidance, His counsel, and His protection. I hear Him speak to my mind—things that are outside of my ability to know, apart from a revelation from Him. Many of the prinicples that are written in this book, came to my mind by revelation from the Lord, as I was writing. I speak to Him, He answers me. I know that He exists because He is such a great and substantial part of my life and existence as a human being.
Because of what Jesus has accomplished for us at the cross, all of our sins are no more and we are able to enjoy perfect and unending fellowship with the Living God. He has made us His friends and there is no longer a wall of separation between us and Him. I have personally known Him and the reality of His existence since April 25, 1975.
I have discovered that the God of the Bible is the answer to every question that I have had about life, the universe, and the reason that I find myself here on this tiny planet.
It is practically impossible that an anthology of 66 books, authored by 40 different writers, over a period of more than 1,500 years, could all describe, with precision, one subject—the Messiah, without this knowledge being imparted to the minds of the writers of the Bible—supernaturally.
Someone who lives outside of time and has infinite knowledge of every event that will transpire on earth, has revealed these facts to the writers of the Bible—who then communicated these things to us.
The leaders of Israel had three and one half years to examine the testimony of Jesus of Nazareth and decide if He presented enough credible evidence to be the Messiah. Jesus met every requirement, and did not fail to fulfill the hundreds of predictions that were written to describe the coming Savior of the world. These men chose to reject Jesus for fear of what they would loose. I pray that you will not make the same grave error.
You may feel that should you surrender your life to Jesus, He will immediately take away all of the exciting things that you love. In reality, He is very gentle, and never forces anyone to believe in Him or trust Him. If you decide to give up something it happen by your own will and desire for change, not through compulsion or guilt from the Lord.
You will discover over the course of several years, many things you once considered important, will no longer be important at all. These changes come through awareness and realization, not by oppression or condemnation. The burdens that Jesus places on us are not heavy, hard to bear, or difficult to accomplish. Using your own natural abilities that He has created within you, providing resources that are limitless, and wisdom that comes through seeking His heart and will, you will be lead on the most amazing adventure you could ever imagine.
Jesus makes us into new creatures from the moment we lay our lives before Him and are willing to turn from our former sins and selfishness. It is by the process of becoming a new creation that our thoughts, words, and actions begin to change through our own will and desire—progressively—for the rest of our lives.
I hope in some small way, this book will help you to discover how wonderful it is to have a real and personal relationship with the one true God who has revealed Himself through His Son, Jesus Christ.


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Harris and Hellums were reported to have been killed, and evidence at the time indicated the remains of the men had been destroyed in the attack and were neither recovered nor buried near the location.
In November 1946, a French soldier working in the Parroy Forest found debris associated with an M-10 vehicle and human remains, which were turned over to the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC). The remains were buried as unknowns in the Ardennes American Cemetery in Belgium. A year later, the AGRC returned to the Parroy Forest to conduct interviews and search for additional remains. Investigators noted at that time that all remains of U.S. soldiers had reportedly been
removed and that the soldiers were likely buried elsewhere as unknowns.
In 2003, a French citizen exploring the Parroy Forest discovered human remains and an identification bracelet engraved with Hellums' name. The information was eventually sent to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC). In April 2006, the man turned over the items to a JPAC team working in Europe.
Historians at DPMO and JPAC continued their research on the burials at the Ardennes Cemetery, and drew a correlation to those unknowns that had been removed from the 1944 battle site. In early 2008, JPAC disinterred these remains and began their forensic review.
Among other forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPAC used dental comparisons for both men and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory used mitochondrial DNA, which matched that of each soldier's relatives in the identification of their remains.
At the end of the war, the U.S. government was unable to recover, identify and bury approximately 79,000 Americans. Today, more than 72,000 remain unaccounted-for from the conflict.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for missing Americans, call 703-699-1169 or visit the DPMO Web site at www.dtic.mil/dpmo [ http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo ].
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The last song NICK DRAKE reportedly ever committed to tape is to be made available for the first time later this year on a new compilation of the singer's work.
'Toe The Line' will feature on 'I Was Made To Love Magic', a 13-track album, which will mainly contain alternative versions of some of the cult singer's classic songs. The collection, seen as a complement to the 1994 anthology 'Way To Blue', is due out in the summer.
According to Mojo magazine, 'Toe The Line' is similar in style to the tracks on Drake's notoriously sparse final LP, 1972's 'Pink Moon'. Just over two minutes in length, and contains the lyric: "If you call we will follow/if you show us we can toe the line".
"I Was Made To Love Magic' also includes a solo 'River Man' and a five-minute rendition of 'Three Hours' among its gems.
Drake made three albums for Island before his death in 1974 from an overdose of antidepressants aged just 26. Since then he has gained massive cult following.


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Pakistan has frozen more than 5,000 bank accounts of terror suspects in the country under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA). Reports state that the frozen accounts also include one of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar, according to local media.
The accounts frozen by the Pakistani authorities contain a net amount of more than Pakistani Rs 40 crore.
The names of around 1,200 of these suspects, whose accounts were frozen by State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), were listed in category 'A' of the ATA, a term used for terrorists who pose an "exceptional or high risk," an official said. "Masood Azhar's name was listed in category 'A'," the official was quoted as saying by the News.
According to reports, the Pakistan government had put the JeM chief under "protective custody" after the terrorist attack at the Pathankot airbase in India in January.
"Following the request of the ministry of interior, we have frozen accounts of all top suspected terrorists, including Masood Azhar, son of Allah Bux," the official said.
National coordinator of the National Counterterrorism Authority, Ihsan Ghani, confirmed that more than 5,000 accounts have been frozen by the government.
Pakistan on Monday suffered a heavy blow as militants barged into a Police academy in Quetta and opened fire at the cadets. At least 60 cadets were killed and more than 110 were wounded in the terrorist attack.
A military counter-operation to defeat the militants continued overnight and officials on Tuesday morning said that the operation was successful. Militants attacked the Balochistan Police College, located 20 km east of Quetta, at 11:00 pm on Monday. The compound had around 700 recruits at the time of the attack; however, hundreds of people were rescued in the operation, according to reports.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif postponed all engagements in Islamabad and arrived in Quetta on Tuesday morning. The PM is scheduled to chair a high-level meeting in the city to discuss the law and order situation. Sharif is also expected to visit the injured cadets in the hospital.