Islamabad: Opposing the Indo-Pak ceasefire, Pakistan-based militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen has announced a new recruitment and training schedule of militants in spite of the Government's recent crackdown against extremist groups.

Hizbul, which announced its opposition to the ceasefire yesterday (Nov 28, 2003), issued a schedule for "jihad" training in Pakistan's North West Frontier town of Peshawar.

The militant group publicly distributed a four-page pamphlet at an Eid Milan hosted by Islamist party Jamat-e-Islami at Peshawar yesterday, Pakistan daily 'The Nation' reported today (Nov 29).

In the pamphlet, Hizbul published its training schedule, which included 21-day preliminary training and three-month guerilla training, the newspaper said.

It further stated that during training, food, accommodation, medi-care and arms would be provided by Hizbul while the mujahideen fighters would bear the travelling expenditure upto the training centre.

Flaying the ceasefire, Hizbul spokesman Salim Hashmi said, "The ceasefire is by the two Armies and not by the mujahideen."

"In the absence of a permanent solution to the festering issue, all such steps will prove to be cosmetic and transitory," Hashmi told reporters at Muzafarbad, the capital of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK).

PTI