Hundreds of Pakistani supporters of a terror-linked charity tried to cross into Kashmir on Wednesday to deliver aid after weeks of violent protests there.

But the activists from the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the charitable arm of the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba did not have permission from either the Pakistani or Indian authorities to cross the border and were stopped in a village on the Pakistani side where they staged a protest.


"We will continue the sit-in until these essential food supplies are sent across the divide into the curfew ridden Kashmir valley," Hafiz Abdul Rauf, a senior official of the charity, told Reuters.

The United States designated the charity a "foreign terrorist organisation" in 2010.

Forty-six people have been killed and more 5,000 wounded, including Indian security forces, since protests erupted there after the killing of a militant commander on July 8.


The JuD activists, chanting "annihilation of India", tried to approach the LoC but were kept well back by steel barricades erected by Pakistani security forces in the village of Chakothi.