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Centre bans Al-Qaeda

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI APRIL 8. The Centre today declared the Al-Qaeda a terrorist organisation with immediate effect and imposed a ban on it under the provisions of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA).

A spokesman of the Union Home Ministry said here that with the ban on the Al-Qaeda, the total number of organisations banned under POTA since October last had gone up to 28. The Centre had on April 1 brought under the list of terrorist outfits two Pakistan-based militant organisations operating in Jammu and Kashmir — Al Badr and the Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen. The list of banned terrorist organisations under POTA also includes the Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Jaish-e-Mohammad, which have their headquarters and training camps across the border but are operating in Jammu and Kashmir. The two outfits have also engineered a number of "fidayeen'' attacks on high value security targets in the border State over the past year or so.

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