Srinagar, March 13 -- Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said the Centre has not shared any intelligence with his government that could have warranted the ban on Mirwaiz Umar Farooq's Awami Action Committee (AAC), and asserted he was not in favour of such decisions.
The Centre had on Tuesday banned the AAC, headed by Kashmir's influential cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, and Shia leader Masroor Abbas Ansari-led Ittehadul Muslimeen for five years for their alleged anti-national activities, supporting terrorism and fuelling secessionist activities.
"I do not know the basis of the ban. This is not under the purview of the elected government (in J&K) and the intelligence on the basis of which it has taken place has not been shared with us,"...