PRESS RELEASE

London (August 18, 2020)

 In a press statement issued from London, several important matters relating to movement and the organisation were thoroughly discussed.

 Branch members expressed deep sorrow over the sad demise of Javaid Rashid, a lifelong member of London branch. While paying glowing tributes and remembering his services to Kashmiri nation, office bearers prayed for the departed soul and expressed their sympathies with the bereaved family. Attendees pledged to continue with his mission for a democratic and independent state of Jammu Kashmir.

 While addressing the meeting Malik Latif Khan He reiterated JKLF’s position that Kashmir is not a territorial dispute between India and Pakistan and that both countries owed it to the future peace and prosperity of 1.5 billion people of India, Pakistan and Jammu Kashmir to find a just, democratic and peaceful resolution of the Kashmir dispute, based on the unfettered, inherent and inalienable right to self-determination of over 20 million Kashmiris across the LoC and in the Diaspora.

 Mahmood Hussain, Ex-President of JKLF UK zone while addressing the meeting said the continuing deaths of innocent civilians in Indian Occupied Kashmir at the hands of the Indian army is intolerable, and unbecoming of a civilised world when civilians are deliberately targeted by a professional army. He further said that Indian Army even targets civilians in many parts of Pakistan administered Jammu Kashmir. The international community has a moral and legal responsibility to censure those responsible for causing misery, death and desolation to innocent lives.

 The meeting unanimously passed a resolution condemning Pakistan’s new political map in which Jammu Kashmir has been portrayed as part of Pakistan.

 Those who also spoke  on this occasion include Moahammad Latif Khan, Mahmood Hussain, Tariq Sharif, Sanawar Hussain, Imran Javaid, Tahir Ashraf, Nazakat Ali, Mohammad Nadeem, Mohammad Saleem, and others.

Press Secretary,
JKLF, London Branch