Islamabad, Nov 29: Opposing the Indo-Pak ceasefire, Pakistan-based militant outfit Hizbul Mujahidin has announced a new recruitment and training schedule of militants in spite of the government's recent crackdown against extremist groups. Hizbul, which announced its opposition to the ceasefire yesterday issued a schedule for "jihad" training in Pakistan's North West Frontier town of Peshawar.
The militant group publicly distributed a four-page pamphlet at an Eid milan hosted by Islamist party Jamat-e-Islami at Peshawar yesterday, a Pakistan daily reported today.
In the pamphlet, Hizbul published its training schedule, which included 21-day preliminary training and three-month guerilla training, the newspaper said.
It further stated that during training, food, accommodation, medi-care and arms would be provided by Hizbul while the mujahidin fighters would bear the travelling expenditure up to the training centre.
Flaying the ceasefire, Hizbul spokesman Salim Hashmi said that "the ceasefire is by the two armies and not by the mujahidin".
In the absence of a permanent solution to the festering issue, all such steps will prove to be cosmetic and transitory," Hashmi told reporters at Muzafarbad, the capital of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (POK).
Hizbul's new recruitment and training programme comes after the proscription of six militant outfits by the Jamali government during the past two weeks.
They included Khuddam-i-Islam, headed by erstwhile Jaish-e-Muhammad leader Masood Azhar and Jamat-i-Furqan, headed by Jaish rebel leaders and Jamat-ul-Anzar. All these are renamed outfits formed from groups banned in 2002.
Meanwhile, Jamat-i-Islami (JI) has said the new truce between India and Pakistan amounted to "abandoning" Islamabad's hold on Kashmir and Siachen.
JI's chief, Qazi Hussain Ahmad told an Eid congregation in Lahore two days ago that there was no justification for prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali in declaring unilateral ceasefire with India. Bureau Report