PESHAWAR- The federal government has asked the Sindh, Punjab and Azad Kashmir governments to ban the publications of as many 22 magazines, propaganda machines of the different religious and Jihadi organizations, which appear from Karachi, Lahore and Muzaffarabad, reliable sources said.
Putting ban on the 17 monthly magazines and five weekly and quarterly magazines is the extension of the measures set by the UN Security Council Sanction Committee and the United States government against the terrorist individuals and entities.
The monthly magazines which have been selected to be banned, include: Al-Irshad International, Islamabad; Banat-i- Aisha, Karachi; Al-Da’wa, Lahore; Kashmir Action, Lahore; Al-Babar, Karachi; Al-Rihat (Arabic), Lahore; Al-Masood, Muzaffarabad/Karachi; Sada-i- Kashmir, Muzaffarabad; Sada-i-Mujahid, Islamabad/Karachi; Voice of Islam (English), Lahore; Shahadat Srinagar/ Muzaf-farabad/Islamabad; Jihad-i-Kashmir, Muzaffarabad; Zarb-i-Tayyaba, Lahore; monthly Badar Digest, Lahore; Mohaz-i-Kashmir, Muzaffarabad; Dawat-i-Tanzeemul Islam, Lahore /Sialkot/Gujranwala and Al-Khalid sand weekly Asia, Lahore; weekly Zarb-i-Momin, Karachi; weekly Jihad Times (Urdu), Lahore; fortnightly Jaish-i-Muhammad, Karachi and quarterly Tayyba, Lahore.
These publications are being managed by the Jaish-i-Muhammad, Al-Badar Muja-hideen, Jamaat-i-Islami, Las-hkar-i-Tayyaba, Al- Rashid Trust, Hizbul Mujahideen, Sunni Jihad Council, and Hizb-i- Jihad-i-Islami.
The government had already banned the Al-Rashid Trust, Jaish-i-Muhammad, Lashkar-i-Tayyaba, Sipah-i-Sahaba, Tehreek Jaffaria Pakistan and ordered freezing of their assets in the country. The government also reviewing how to clip the wings of militants recruiting child-soldiers from the seminaries, the sources added.
The sources said that the US has also urged the government to remove all fanatics from educational institutions and revise the curriculum, which induce fanatic feelings among the students. The government, the sources added, has formed a curriculum committee to compile a new system reflecting national aspirations and needs of the day.
Source: Dawn
Date:3/7/2002
