| The federal government has banned Rah-e-Wafa, a publication of the banned Khuddamul Islam group (formerly known as Jaish-e-Muhammad), and ordered the confiscation of all of its copies in the country, official sources told Daily Times on Monday. Sources said the government would ban other periodicals owned by some militant groups in a couple of weeks for promoting sectarianism in Pakistan. Rah-e-Wafa was being published from Karachi. The Jaish launched it under the name of Jaish-e-Muhammad but the government banned it. The Jaish re-introduced the same publication as Shamsheer, which was marketed as Rah-e-Wafa that too was banned. The federal government has directed the provincial home secretaries to confiscate all copies of the banned periodical in their provinces. "The periodical is promoting sectarianism in the country, therefore all of its copies available in the market be confiscated with immediate effect," says a federal government directive, issued to the provincial governments. |