Jamaat-e-Islami and activists of banned groups on Friday demonstrated in the capital city of Azad Kashmir against Pakistan government’s decision to take steps to improve trade with India.
Last month, the federal cabinet said it approved a proposal giving India the status of the most favoured nation in a move towards normalising trade relations between the two neighbours.
Besides activists of Jamaat-e-Islami, members of banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba gathered in the main square in Muzaffarabad city. Protesters shouted slogans against the Pakistani government and were joined by Pakistan Muslim League-N, an AFP reporter said.
“We will never accept this decision,” Maulana Abdul Aziz Alvi, local chief of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa told the gathering. His organisation is blacklisted as a terror group by the United Nations and considered a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Later, the protesters blocked the main road passing through Muzaffarabad city centre by setting tyres on fire.
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