islamabad pakistans supreme court on friday declared the pakturk international cag education foundation pticef a terrorist organisation directing the government to ban the turkish charity linked with usbased muslim cleric and educator fethullah gulen and hand over its schools to a proturkish government organisationa threemember bench of the apex court announced the verdict comprising 15 pages and written by justice ijazul ahsan the court had conducted the hearing of the case on december 13it said the pticef is declared a terrorist organisation in the light of the decisions of organisation of islamic conference and asian parliamentary assembly noting that turkey has also declared the aforementioned organisation a terrorist group geo news reportedthe top court after hearing the petition in its verdict asked the interior ministry to include the name of pticef in the first schedule to section 11b of the antiterrorism act 1997 which listed the banned extremist entitiespticef was established in 1990 and the 28 schools of the foundation in pakistan kept functioning with the cooperation of turkish government the verdict readthe petitioner also asked the court to give control of educational institutions of pticef to turkiye maarif foundationthe administration of 28 schools functioning in pakistan under pticef should be rearranged in the light of bilateral agreements between pakistan and turkey the court orderedgulen was once an ally of turkeys president tayyip erdogan but fell from grace and later was accused for botched coup of july 2016he lives in the us and blamed for plotting the overthrow of government of turkey a charge he deniedthe court also ordered to freeze the bank accounts of pticef and give their custody to turkiye maarif foundation