ISLAMABAD: Interior secretary Tasneem Noorani on Wednesday said there was no ban on the movement of Hizbul Mujahideen leaders and activists but they could not carry out organizational activities in the country. Talking to Dawn, he said the FIR had been registered against a guard of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Syed Salahuddin for brandishing a prohibited weapon at a Rawalpindi Press Club function on Sunday. The interior secretary said display of arms was banned in the country and nobody was above the law. "Anybody who breaks the law of the land will be dealt with accordingly, no matter which party he belongs to," he said.
"Yar! We be jihadis!"
"Yer under arrest, Mahmoud! Mortars greater than 120 mm are prohibited in public!" |
A couple of days back, Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat had told Dawn that the government had imposed a ban on the organizational activities of Hizbul Mujahideen, but there was no ban on the movement of its leaders and activists. The interior secretary said the United Nations sent lists of various organizations to Pakistan every year, seeking ban on them. Pakistan, he pointed out, could not ban all such organizations. "We can only ban those organizations which are based in Pakistan."
| "And since it's based in Pak Kashmir, well, that takes it right out of our jurisdiction, doesn't it?" |
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