Tag: BANONSIMI

By M M Special Correspondent New Delhi: As the ban on Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) is nearing end, the Union home ministry is awaiting status report from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government to decide  whether the five-year-ban on it should be further extended. SIMI is a banned Islamist organisation that was formed in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, in April 1977, with the stated mission of "liberation of India" from Western materialistic cultural influence and to convert its Muslim society to live according to the Muslim code of conduct. The Indian government...