Yasin Malik’s Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front banned
Live MintNew Delhi: The Centre on Friday banned Hurriyat leader Yasin Malik’s Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, officials familiar with the development confirmed. The move comes nearly a month after a major crackdown on separatists in the valley in which 130 separatists from the Jamaat-e-Islami and the Hurriyat Conference were arrested, including JKLF Chief Yasin Malik and Jamaat-e-Islami chief Abdul Hamid Fayaz. Earlier this month, the Union home ministry also banned the Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir for a period of five years on grounds of the outfit being in “close touch” with militant outfits. More than a month after a suicide blast by the Jaish-e-Mohammad killed 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel in Kashmir’s Pulwama district, the special cell of the Delhi police also arrested JeM operative Sajjad Khan from the capital’s Red Fort area late on Thursday night.