SRINAGAR — Former president of banned Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) J&Ok, Dr Abdul Hameed Fayaz on Wednesday mentioned the Jamaat refutes allegations levelled in DisinfoLab report that the organisation and its affiliate members had been concerned within the conduct or promotion of the Convention held in Bosnia on Kashmir.
Addressing a press convention right here, Dr Fayaz, who was flanked by former JeI spokesman Advocate Zahid Ali, mentioned that the allegations being circulated on social networks significantly reported by an entity named DisinfoLab that Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir (presently banned) and its related organizations had been concerned within the conduct or promotion of a convention in Bosnia are completely baseless because the Jamaat will not be practical as a consequence of ban and it has no affiliate organizations anyplace on the earth nor any representatives.
“Any group or particular person claiming to be an affiliate group or consultant of the Jamaat is kind of in opposition to the details and is hereby challenged. The Jamaat was restricted to the territory of Jammu and Kashmir solely and its actions too had been restricted thereto and after it was banned in February 2019, it stopped all its actions and features. Some names proven within the report back to have attended the convention haven’t any nexus or affiliation with the Jamaat,” Dr Fayaz mentioned as per information company Kashmir Information Observer (CT).
He mentioned that it’s hereby clarified that neither the Jamaat nor any of its members had been concerned within the conduct or promotion of the mentioned convention.
“It’s also hereby made amply clear that any member migrating to anyplace exterior the territorial jurisdiction of Jammu and Kashmir ceases to be a member of the Jamaat as per the get together structure. So any individual residing completely exterior Jammu and Kashmir can not declare to be a member of the Jamaat and the group can’t be held accountable for any actions completed by such individuals as any individual settled overseas can not have the membership of the Jamaat,” Dr Fayaz mentioned.
He added, “No one has taken any verbal or written consent from any erstwhile chief or functionary of the Jamaat to talk in any convention and at current as a result of ban, it’s fairly out of query to get such consent.”
He mentioned that each one queries raised in regards to the participation of Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir within the convention Russell Tribunal on Kashmir held at Sarajevo Bosnia overtly or tacitly are usually not justified in any respect.
“Jamaat earlier than the ban was a socio-religious organisation working for the betterment of humanity at giant in accordance with the divine steerage of Islam for searching for the pleasure of Allah,” he mentioned. He, nevertheless, refused to take any questions.
Pertinently, on March 2, 2019, the Centre introduced a ban on Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir for a interval of 5 years, citing causes that the outfit was in “shut contact” with militant outfits. The Jamaat-e-Islami was banned beneath “anti-terror legal guidelines” because the Centre had claimed the step was taken to stop any “escalation of secessionist motion” in J&Ok.
The Ministry of House Affairs had issued the ban order a couple of days after the Jammu and Kashmir Police arrested round 100 folks, together with the Jamaat-e-Islami chief, and claimed that the outfit was concerned in actions meant at disrupting India’s integrity.
Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir was a socio-political and non secular organisation that was based in 1945 as a chapter of the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind through the Independence motion.
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