Srinagar, Feb 02 (KNS): Banned Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday said that the allegations being circulated on social networks particularly reported by an entity named Dis Information lab that Jamaat e Islami Jammu and Kashmir and its associated organisations were involved in the conduct or promotion of any conference in Bosnia are totally baseless.

During a press conference in Srinagar, Jamaat spokesperson said that the reports were baseless as the Jamaat is not functional due to the ban and it has no associate organisations anywhere in the world nor any representatives. 

“Any organization or individual claiming to be an associate organization or representative of the Jamaat is quite against the facts and is hereby challenged,” he said.

He said that the Jamaat was restricted to the territory of Jammu and Kashmir only and its activities too were restricted thereto and after it was banned in February 2019, it stopped all its activities and functions. 

“Some names shown in the said report to have attended in the conference have no nexus or association with the Jamaat and their statements can not be imputed to the Jamaat.”

The spokesperson said that it is hereby clarified that neither the Jamaat nor any of its members was involved in the conduct or promotion of the said conference. 

“It is also hereby made amply clear that any member migrating to any place outside the territorial jurisdiction of Jammu and Kashmir ceases to be a member of the Jamaat as per the party constitution.” 

He said that so any person residing permanently outside Jammu and Kashmir can not claim to be a member of the Jamaat and the organization cannot be held responsible for any activities done by such persons as any person settled abroad cannot have the membership of the Jamaat. 

“Nobody has taken any verbal or written consent from any erstwhile leader or functionary of the Jamaat to speak in any conference and at present due to the ban, it is quite out of question to get such consent. So all queries raised about the participation of Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir in the conference Russell Tribunal on Kashmir held at Sarajevo Bosnia openly or tacitly are not justified at all.” 

It further said that Jamaat before the ban was a socio-religious organisation working for the betterment of the humanity at large in accordance with the divine guidance of Islam for seeking the pleasure of Allah. (KNS)