ISLAMABAD – Days after cracking down against their leaders, the Indiangovernment has formally banned the Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) for five years forallegedly supporting “terrorist groups and being involved in theanti-national and subversive activities in the country”.
This is the second time that Jamaat has been banned in the last 29 years ofturmoil.
Jamaat was banned in 1990 but its ban was revoked and leaders released afew years later.
“JeI is in close touch with militant outfits and is supporting extremismand militancy in J&K and elsewhere. JeI is supporting claims for secessionof a part of the Indian Territory from the union and supporting terroristand separatist groups fighting for this purpose by indulging in activitiesand articulations intended to disrupt the territorial integrity of India.
JeI is involved in anti-national and subversive activities in the countryintended to cause disaffection”, reads the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA)notification.
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MHA said the Central government is also of the opinion that having regardto the activities of the JeI, it is necessary to declare it to be anunlawful association with immediate effect.
“Now therefore in exercise of the powers conferred by subsection (1) and(3) of Section 3 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967, thecentral government hereby declares the JeI Jammu and Kashmir as an unlawfulassociation and directs that this notification shall subject to any orderthat may be made under section 4 of the said Act have effect for a periodof five years from the date of this publication in the official gazette”,read the MHA notification.
The notification comes days after police launched massive crackdown andarrested hundreds of JeI cadres including its chairman Abdul Hameed Fayazand spokesman Zahid Ali.
