President bans National Thawheed Jammath

President Maithripala Sirisena, as per the powers vested in him under the emergency regulations no 1 of 2019, has taken steps to ban National Thawheed Jammath (NTJ) and Jamathei Millathu Ibraheem (JMI) in Sri Lanka, the President's Media Division (PMD) said.

In a statement, the PMD said steps would be taken to freeze the assets of these two organisations and also to ban other extremist outfits in Sri Lanka.