Banned Pakistani groups 'expand'

[Coventina]

Source: BBC

Militant groups banned in Pakistan are expanding operations and recruitment in Pakistani-run Kashmir, according to a government report seen by the BBC.

The observations are from a detailed secret report submitted to the region's government on the groups' activities in the city of Muzaffarabad and elsewhere.

Pakistan banned the groups in 2002 after an attack on India's parliament brought the two states close to war.

A senior Pakistani minister denied that such a report had been submitted.

"No such report has come before the government which shows that these organisations have revived their activities," Qamaruzaman Qaira, Pakistan's Information Minister, told the BBC.



Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8125039.stm

[cosmicone]

1. They are banned as a formality only

These groups are actually funded, armed, trained and protected by Pakistan and ISI. None of the well-known culprits are ever put in prison permanently or handed over to India to be tried.

Pakistan is a cancer on the world.