Srinagar: Hundreds of students of Kashmir University on Wednesday held a protest demonstration in the varsity campus against the
government ban on Jama’at-e-Islami outfit.
Eyewitnesses said that the students from various departments took out a rally inside the campus and marched through the varsity amid intense sloganeering.While shouting slogans the students sought the ban to be removed immediately.
Earlier, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) banned Jamat-e-Islami for the next five years. The decision came almost a fortnight after the more than 250 of its leaders and activists including the entire leadership were arrested across the state .
Reports appearing in the media said the central government has declared the over seventy years old party as an “unlawful association” having the potential to disrupt the unity and integrity of the country.
