NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi-led fascist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has banned the Muslim organization Popular Front of India (PFI) for five years over alleged terror activities after two rounds of country-wide raids and arrest of over 240 leaders and functionaries of in a week.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the Modi regime has declared the Popular Front of India (PFI) and its associates or affiliates or fronts as “unlawful associations” under draconian law, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).
Rehab India Foundation (RIF), Campus Front of India (CFI), All India Imams Council (AIIC), National Confederation of Human Rights Organization (NCHRO), National Women’s Front, Junior Front, Empower India Foundation and Rehab Foundation, Kerala, have also been declared unlawful associations.
“PFI and its associates or affiliates or fronts have been indulging in unlawful activities, which are prejudicial to the integrity, sovereignty and security of the country and have the potential of disturbing public peace and communal harmony of the country and supporting militancy in the country,” according to the allegations leveled in the gazette notification
from the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs. The ministry alleged that some of the PFI’s founding members are the leaders of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and PFI has linkages with Jamat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh.
There had been a number of instances of international linkages of PFI with Global Terrorist Groups like Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), according to the notification. “Some activists of the PFI have joined Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and participated in terror activities in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Some of these PFI cadres linked to ISIS have been killed in these conflict theaters and some have been arrested by State Police and Central Agencies,” the MHA alleged.
