Centre bans Kashmir outfit

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  • The Union Home Ministry has banned the Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen (TuM) under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for promoting terrorism and radicalising and recruiting youth for terrorist activities in India.
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  • Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen (TuM):
    (1) TuM claims to be fighting for the “liberation of Kashmir.
    (2) Set up in the 1990s.
    (3) The TuM carried out a number of terrorist attacks besides subversive acts, namely grenade attacks, weapons snatching incidents, supporting other terrorist outfits such as Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HuM), Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), etc. in terms of financial and logistic support in the recent past.
    (4) TuM is headed by Jamil-ur-Rehman of Lajora in Pulwama.
Source
The Hindu




Posted by Jawwad Kazi on 7th Feb 2019
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