Tag: Jammu and Kashmir

A senior leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), Ghulam Qadir Wani, has expressed that the outfit is ready to join electoral politics if the Centre lifts its ban on them, and he has called upon its supporters to cast their ballots in the ongoing Lok Sabha polls. The JeI, which last participated in elections in Kashmir before the onset of militancy, has been banned since the Pulwama terror attack in 2019, with most of its leadership detained. A press release on social media, purportedly from “the spokesman of Jamaat-e-Islami,” clarified that Wani’s...