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Pakistan-based militant outfits on Tuesday vowed to defy the ban by the military regime on fund collections by them, saying jehad was not launched on the directive of the government nor it could be abandoned on its order.
"Jehad will continue till the day of judgment," the provincial leaders of Lashkar-e-Tayiba, Hizbul Mujahideen, Jaish-e-Muhammad and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen said reacting to the ban imposed by the provincial government in Sindh on collection of funds by them in the name of jehad and displaying signboards in their offices.
"We are sitting in our offices and our signboards are very much there. We have not removed the signboards or fund boxes," Lashkar-e-Tayiba leader Umer Farooq was quoted as saying.
A spokesman of the Jaish-e-Mohammad, an outfit floated by Masood Azhar who was among the three militants released by India to end the Indian Airlines hijacking in 1999, said "We have not started jehad on the orders of the government nor can any ruler ask us to stop it."
The order for the ban, which also applies to militant groups operating in the Kashmir valley, was issued on Monday night by the Sindh government.
It warned the groups of legal action if they violated the order.
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