Jamaat-ud-Dawah and Falah-e-Insaniyat, recently placed under a “watch-list” and against which the Pakistani government launched a crackdown, on Sunday held rallies across the country under the banner of Tehreek Azadi Jammu Kashmir (TAJK).
The rallies were organised just days after the JuD’s chief and Mumbai attack mastermind, Hafiz Saeed, was put under “house arrest” in Lahore under the Fourth Schedule of the Anti-Terrorism Act by the government.
Saeed had indicated a week before his “house arrest” that he might launch the TAJK to “expedite the freedom of Kashmir”. The Interior Ministry had also placed Saeed and 37 other JuD and FIF members on the exit control list, barring them from leaving Pakistan.
At rallies in several parts of Pakistan, the participants demanded immediate release of Saeed. — PTI
