The names of another 43 individuals affiliated with the Jammu & Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee (JKJAAC)—an organization declared proscribed in Pakistan-administered Kashmir—have been added to the Fourth Schedule.
According to a notification issued by the Home Department, approval has been granted to include these individuals in the Fourth Schedule under Section 16(1) of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2014.
The notification indicates that while the listed individuals hail from various districts of Kashmir, some also belong to other cities in Pakistan.
The majority of the individuals are from Poonch District, with 15 names included from that area, while six individuals from Sudhnoti are also part of the list.
A few individuals from Muzaffarabad and Neelum have also been added to the Fourth Schedule.
The proscribed JKJAAC had called for protests on June 9 to press for various demands, including the abolition of the 12 reserved seats for refugees.
The government declared the Action Committee proscribed on the night between June 5 and 6, following the failure of negotiations between the Kashmir government and the Action Committee on June 30.
Protests by the proscribed Action Committee are still ongoing in the Poonch district of Kashmir. The Home Department’s notification outlines the specific restrictions and measures imposed on the individuals included in the Fourth Schedule.
Of the individuals added to the Fourth Schedule, 15 belong to Poonch, 6 to Sudhnoti, 6 to Kotli, and 6 to other cities in Pakistan. The list includes the names of Zia Tariq (Muzaffarabad), Syed Aizaz Hamdani (Muzaffarabad), Muhammad Sabeel Riyasat (Kotli), Muhammad Riaz (Kotli), Rizwan Riaz (Kotli), Imran Riaz (Kotli), Muhammad Usman Khan Chughtai (Bagh), Muhammad Amraiz (Sudhnoti), Zakariya Sarfraz (Poonch), Shazib Abbasi (Bagh), Asad Irshad (Poonch), Maria Musa (Bagh), Muhammad Nasir Khan (Poonch), Aamir Hamza Kiani Advocate (Poonch), Sajjad Khurshid Kiani (Poonch), Arsalan Saleem (Poonch), Mansoor Kiani (Poonch), Wajid Aslam (Poonch), Fawad Hanif (Poonch), Ehtesham Saeed (Sudhnoti), Aamir Jannat (Poonch), Muhammad Fahad Jameel (Sudhnoti), Maulana Muhammad Farooq Khan (Poonch), Imran Sajaq (Poonch), Muhammad Irfan Sajaq (Poonch), Shahzad Akhtar (Sudhnoti), Malik Hasrat Abid (Sudhnoti), Prince Khurram Taj (Poonch), Zulfiqar Haider (Bagh), Latif-ur-Rehman Shah (Neelum), Mukhtar Baba (Muzaffarabad), Sabrina Khan (Layyah), Naveed Ahmed (Jhang), Bilal Ahmed (Toba Tek Singh), Syed Majid Hussain Shah (Kotli), Muhammad Usman (Kohari), Bilal Kiani (Muzaffarabad), Hamza Khurshid (Sudhnoti), Umair Farooq (Bahawalnagar), Shamaila Aslam (Gujrat), Shabbir Ahmed Chaudhry (Bhimber), Abdul Aziz (Kotli), and Sajid Bashir (Poonch).
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