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Publication: Free Press Journal
Date: August 9, 2008
The All India Minority Front on Friday said
it had evidence that the outlawed Students Islamic of Movement of India had
links with terror outfits in Pakistan.
"We have evidence of SIMI's links with
Pakistani terror outfits and are ready to provide it to the central government,
provided we are promised security," Front national president S.M.
Asif told reporters here.
"We have spoken to various Muslim people
who have proof in this regard but they fear for their lives," Asif said.
"We want SIMI should be banned and punished.
The minorities in the country are opposed to all sorts of militancy. Even
then Muslims suffer whenever there is any terror attack in the country,"
Asif said. Attacking Railway Minister Lalu Prasad and Samajwadi Party leader
Mulayam Singh Yadav for demanding that the ban on SIMI be lifted, Asif said:
"They are supporting the outfit only for political gains."
THE All India Minority Front on Friday said
it had evidence that the outlawed Students Is- lamic of Movement of India
had links with ter- ror outfits in Pakistan. "We have evidence of SIMI's
links with Pak- istani terror outfits and are ready to provide it to the central
government, provided we are prom- ised security," Front national president
S.M. Asif told reporters here. "We have spoken to various Muslim people
who have proof in this regard but they fear for their lives," Asif said.
"We want SIMI should be banned and pun- ished. The minorities in the
country are opposed to all sorts of militancy. Even then Muslims suf- fer
whenever there is any terror attack in the country," Asif said. Attacking
Railway Minister Lalu Prasad and Samajwadi Party leader Mu- layam Singh Yadav
for demanding that the ban on SIMI be lifted, Asif said: "They are support-
ing the outfit only for political gains."
