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Early Times Report
JAMMU , November 27 :- Islamic activists, belonging to Jamait-e-Islami,Muslim League(N) Jamait-u-Dawa, Liberation League and others, have joined hands with Kashmiri separatists in opposing the Pakistan Government's plan on granting Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India.
Chairman Hurriyat Conference (G),Syed Ali Shah Geelani , has been opposing any plan of Islamabad on promoting trade and travel between the two sides. He has stated that if Islamabad overemphasis on trade and travel it would relegate the Kashmir issue to the background.
A day early a massive r ally was organized by several Islamic parties in protest against Pakistan's plan on granting MFN status to India. Reports reaching here from across the border said that Hundreds of Islamic activists in Pakistani-administered Kashmir demonstrated in Muzaffarabad against the government’s decision to take steps to improve trade with India.
Pakistan’s cabinet last month said it approved a proposal giving India the status of "most favoured nation" in a move towards normalizing trade relations between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.
Members of banned Islamic groups including Jamaat-ud-Dawa, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba, and hardline religious party Jamaat-e-Islami gathered in the main square in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
Protesters shouted slogans against the Pakistani government and were joined by supporters of the main opposition party of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, an AFP reporter said.
"We will never accept this decision," Maulana Abdul Aziz Alvi, local chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawa told the gathering.
His organization is blacklisted as a terror group by the United Nations and considered a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba that Washington and New Delhi blamed for the killings of 166 people on November 26, 2008 attacks in Mumbai.
Unfortunately these Islamic activists did not know that Pakistan was suffering an annual loss to the tune of two billion dollars because of delay in granting MFN status to India.Official reports said that against the requirement of 6,000 items Pakistan imported only 139 items from India with the result import of remaining items entailed heavy expenses.
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