The Indian government Monday banned Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen and Al-Badr, its first major action under a new law intended to increase the power of law enforcement agencies. An Indian home ministry spokesman said Al-Badr and Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen had been declared terrorist organizations under the new Prevention of Terrorism Act with immediate effect, an Indian home ministry spokesman said in New Delhi. Jamiat is a Kashmir-based militant group and its chief Gulam Rasool, alias General Abdullah, operates from Pakistan. Al-Badr is Pakistan-based and, according to the Indian security agencies, mostly comprised of militants from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.
About time they were banned. They should have been banned as subversive agencies of a foreign power. |