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font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EStatement by Zafar Khan, the head of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front’s Diplomatic Bureau\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EOn the Illegal Dismemberment of Jammu Kashmir by the Indian government:\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font: 7.0pt \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EA reunified and sovereign state of Jammu Kashmir will be in the best interest of India, which in its composition as a society, is more disparate than Pakistan, than a broken and dismembered Jammu Kashmir:\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpLast\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font: 7.0pt \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EThere can be no compromise on our inherent, inalienable and internationally recognised unfettered, and sovereign right to self-determination\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003ELondon\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E8 August:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EIn a statement issued in London from its international Secretariat, the Diplomatic Bureau of the JKLF strongly condemned Indian government’s illegal decision to dismember the state of Jammu Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EThe head of JKLF’s Diplomatic Bureau Prof Zafar Khan called the Modi government’s decision illegal as well as a monumental folly. And said that abrogation of article 370 means that Jammu Kashmir’s conditional constitutional relationship with the Indian union was at an end both in terms of India’s domestic and international law which, renders India’s presence in Jammu Kashmir as that of an occupying foreign power.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EThe head of JKLF’s Diplomatic Bureau said that People of Jammu Kashmir have not only been betrayed by the right wing chauvinist RSS supported BJP government of India, but it has also snubbed the international community with utter disregard and disdain regarding India’s international commitments and obligations to the people, and \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Eon their right of self-determination.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EHe said that through illegal annexation the Modi government wilfully sought to break up territorial unity of Jammu Kashmir and destroy its unique character and identity through absorption as union territory to rule directly from New Delhi’ and also to inflame sectarian and communalism to aid his party’s political objectives in India itself.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EZafar Khan said that 5 August 2019 for ever will be etched in the memory of people in Jammu Kashmir as a black day, and a catastrophe or a day of Nakba as Prime Minister Modi and his ultra-chauvinist henchmen deviously contrived to replicate a Palestine like situation, particularly in the valley of Kashmir to engineer a demographic change.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EHe said the world was watching this so called Modi’s RSS inspired final solution of the Kashmir issue, which in reality means that millions of men, women and children are now imprisoned in their own homes completely cut off from each other in their own country and from the rest of the civilised world, with guns of literally tens of thousands of India’s para military and military troops, pointed at their heads throughout the greater valley of Kashmir, in the Pir Panjal region, and in the regions of Doda, Kishtwar, Badarwah and parts of Jammu including Rajauri and Poonch. He condemned the total siege and lock down of Kashmir and demanded that the iron curtain which has descended on Jammu Kashmir, turning the entire region from Kargil to Rajauri into a gigantic prison, must be lifted.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EHe said Indian government should not harbour any misconception of disunity among the citizens of the state as there is an in build internal unity and solidarity of long standing among the Dogras, in Jammu and Muslims in the valley and other parts of the state on the sanctity of 35 A which is a direct attack on the identity and wellbeing of inhabitants from all ethnic and social and religious backgrounds.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EZafar Khan pointed out that absorption of Jammu Kashmir into the Indian union in such an underhand and deceitful manner will not be acceptable and will prove to be fatally detrimental to the Indian union itself, as is being recognised by a very large number of people across all sections of the Indian society. \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EThe head of the JKLF’s Diplomatic Bureau strongly emphasised that a reunified and sovereign state of Jammu Kashmir will be in the best interest of India, which in its composition as a society, is more disparate than Pakistan, than a broken and dismembered Jammu Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EZafar Khan strongly condemned the politically motivated incarceration of JKLF Chairman Yasin Malik and many other Kashmiri leaders who are being kept in Delhi’s Tihar jail. He said Yasin Malik, Shabir Shah and many others are patriotic Kashmiris who want a peaceful resolution of the Kashmir issue and supportive of dialogue between India, Pakistan and the Kashmiri leadership. Keeping these leaders behind bars and others under house arrest is not only inhuman, vindictive and politically motivated but also colonialistic, and a loss to the achievement of a lasting resolution of the conflict. He called on the Modi government to release the Kashmiri leaders as they are a part of the solution not a part of the problem.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EZafar Khan strongly emphasised that the just and historic struggle for a dignified and peaceful resolution of the issue \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Ewill continue, as there can be no compromise made on our inherent, inalienable\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003Eand internationally recognised unfettered, and sovereign right to self-determination. END\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EProf Zafar Khan\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt;\"\u003EHead of Diplomatic Bureau\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt;\"\u003EJammu Kashmir liberation Front-JKLF-\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt;\"\u003EInternational Secretariat-119-123 Cannon St Road London E1 2XL\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt;\"\u003EEmail: \u003Cspan class=\"MsoHyperlink\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:zafargk@aol.com\"\u003Ezafargk@aol.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoHyperlink\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt;\"\u003E---------------------------\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2182973493945596741\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2019\/08\/statement-by-zafar-khan-head-jklfs.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/2182973493945596741"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/2182973493945596741"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2019\/08\/statement-by-zafar-khan-head-jklfs.html","title":"Statement by Zafar Khan, the head JKLF’s Diplomatic Bureau   On the Illegal Dismemberment of Jammu Kashmir by the Indian government:"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"J K L F"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17912188462951931200"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"19","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_RoCji4VwOvs\/Sg2SrdjusAI\/AAAAAAAAAKw\/t_nQV17OijM\/S220\/jklflag.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025183395565326371.post-2916575933446151614"},"published":{"$t":"2019-08-07T05:13:00.003-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-08-07T05:13:41.379-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Diplomatic"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Press Release"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Jammu Kashmir's illegal annexation by the BJP\/RSS  government of India"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E5 August 2019 will forever be etched in the memory of people in Jammu Kashmir as a black day.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;It will be remembered as a day when the so called largest democracy in the world, illegally annexed the entire Indian occupied part of Jammu Kashmir with a stroke of a pen, and took\u0026nbsp; away\u0026nbsp; the\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; heritage, the identity,\u0026nbsp; hard fought fundamental rights, and centuries\u0026nbsp;old ethnic, cultural and religious harmony and tolerance amongst the sons and daughters of the soil.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E5 August 2019 will be remembered as a black day because, on this day millions of\u0026nbsp; sons and daughters of this beautiful but unhappy\u0026nbsp; land, were imprisoned in their homes\u0026nbsp;by 820,000 Indian military and paramilitary troops at the point of gun under orders from a communalist\u0026nbsp; and hegemonic BJP \/RSS government in\u0026nbsp; Delhi.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E5 August 2019 will be forever marked as a black by the people\u0026nbsp; of Jammu Kashmir because, on this day millions of the\u0026nbsp; citizens of Jammu Kashmir were not\u0026nbsp; treated as members of humanity. This day will also be marked as a black day because, on this day the BJP \/RSS government under the erroneous rule of might is right, disregarded the international law and legality, and forcibly annexed a country, and its people whose\u0026nbsp; political status is yet to be determined by themselves\u0026nbsp; through the exercise of their, fundamental,\u0026nbsp; inherent and inalienable sovereign right to self-determination.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EOn 5 August 2019 therefore, the BJP \/RSS government of India has thrown an open challenge to\u0026nbsp; the world community by completely disregarding its obligations under the United\u0026nbsp; Nations Charter, and the inherent and inalienable sovereign right of the people of Jammu Kashmir to self-determination\u0026nbsp; under the UN Charter and over some 18 UN Resolutions on the Kashmir issue\/dispute -conflict.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003ETherefore, the\u0026nbsp; legitimate and just\u0026nbsp; struggle to regain the lost\u0026nbsp; sovereign right of free will, by people of Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh, will continue until victory. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;\"\u003EProf. Zafar Khan\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChairman Diplomatic Bureau\u003Cbr \/\u003EJammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF-\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;\"\u003E119-123 Cannon Street Road,\u003Cbr \/\u003E(Basement North)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELondon, E1 2LX\u003Cbr \/\u003EEmail: zafargk@aol.com \u003Cbr \/\u003EPhone: 0795 6400 834\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EDated: 7 August 2019\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2916575933446151614\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2019\/08\/jammu-kashmirs-illegal-annexation-by.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/2916575933446151614"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/2916575933446151614"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2019\/08\/jammu-kashmirs-illegal-annexation-by.html","title":"Jammu Kashmir's illegal annexation by the BJP\/RSS  government of India"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"J K L F"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17912188462951931200"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"19","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_RoCji4VwOvs\/Sg2SrdjusAI\/AAAAAAAAAKw\/t_nQV17OijM\/S220\/jklflag.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025183395565326371.post-7751941876555234695"},"published":{"$t":"2019-06-27T05:29:00.003-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-07-09T06:24:22.274-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Diplomatic"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Press Release"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Indian government must release Yasin Malik from incarceration: JKLF"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EStatement by Diplomatic Bureau of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EJKLF leadership will never compromise on the sovereign right of Kashmiris to freedom\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EMeaningful dialogue over the status of Kashmir only possible under UN auspices\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EModi government must release Yasin Malik from incarceration\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EJKLF has the capacity and the will to mount a concerted diplomatic\/ political campaign to expose India’s oppressive occupation of Kashmir \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-uH-yUAxRULk\/XRS2rKilAkI\/AAAAAAAAD0w\/tjCfLoqb02QL-UuHdkQMMmfYbXzPjQvjQCLcBGAs\/s1600\/WhatsApp%2BImage%2B2019-06-27%2Bat%2B11.04.59.jpeg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1200\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-uH-yUAxRULk\/XRS2rKilAkI\/AAAAAAAAD0w\/tjCfLoqb02QL-UuHdkQMMmfYbXzPjQvjQCLcBGAs\/s320\/WhatsApp%2BImage%2B2019-06-27%2Bat%2B11.04.59.jpeg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003ELondon-27 June 2019:\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EMeeting at its International Secretariat in London, the Diplomatic Bureau of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF- called on the Indian government to immediately release its Chairman Mr Yasin Malik who is illegally incarcerated, in India’s Tihar jail.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EChaired by its head, Professor Zafar Khan, the Bureau’s meeting took full stock of the situation arising out of the initial arrest of Mr Yasin Malik under the draconian and oppressive\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EPublic Safety Act- PSA- in February, and the ban imposed on the JKLF \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Ein March ,and subjecting him to India’s National Investigation Agency- NIA’s- strong arm tactics, and Modi government’s continuous malicious campaign to malign and subvert the legitimate and \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Epolitical struggle, and peaceful dissent of the JKLF, its leadership, and that of the Joint Resistance Leadership, the \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EJRL in Indian occupied Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EIn a\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003Estatement issued to press and media the \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Ediplomatic Bureau strongly condemned the inhuman, and ill treatment meted out to the illegally jailed leader by calling it Modi government’s policy of intimidation, and a deliberate attempt to subject the head of JKLF to physical and mental torture in solitary confinement. The statement noted with grave concern at the rapidly failing health of Mr Yasin Malik as a consequence of inadequate medical care, and noted that the severe infection in one his eyes that requires urgent treatment, was a glaring example of Indian government’s \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Epolicy of callousness towards \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EMr \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EMalik to force him into submission. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EThe statement warned the Indian government that the JKLF and the people of Kashmir across both sides of their forcibly divided country between India and Pakistan, are observing India’s cruel and callous policies towards the JKLF and its Chairman, with great restraint as well as with serious concern.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EPeaceful dissent, noted the statement, is stifled with prominent leaders and activists incarcerated under laws like the PSA, and political parties committed to a peaceful resolution of the Kashmir conflict, are banned. The statement noted that as well as stifling and silencing peaceful political dissent in Indian occupied Kashmir, India’s policy in Kashmir of total impunity refuses to allow any scrutiny of state oppression by independent observers, the international media and human rights organisations including the United Nations. The recent refusal by the Modi government to Amnesty International’s representatives to hold a meeting in Srinagar, capital of Kashmir, to address India’s excesses arising out of arrests and denial of civil and political liberties, is a clear example that India and its occupation apparatus in Kashmir \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Eoperates with impunity against the JKLF, its leadership and hundreds of political leaders and activists, who like the JKLF and its leadership, are committed to a just and peaceful resolution of the Kashmir issue.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EThe Bureau’s statement added that the JKLF as a political movement has the capacity and the will, to mount and embark upon a concerted political and diplomatic campaign throughout the world to expose India’s real face of militarised oppression in Kashmir with her deployment of 780,000 military and paramilitary troops, and her callously oppressive and vindictive policies towards political leaders like Mr Yasin Malik who seek a just and equitable resolution of the 72 year old Kashmir issue.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EThe statement added that the JKLF is in an active engagement with human rights organisations and interaction with various governments and political forces across many countries to convey the reality of Indian occupation and oppression in Kashmir; as well as to seek support against Indian government’s treatment and continued incarceration of Mr Yasin Malik.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EThe statement called on the international community in general, and the leading powers, including the permanent members of the UN Security Council in particular, to play their rightful role in resolution of the Kashmir issue, in accordance within the principle of Kashmiri people’s sovereign to decide upon their political status in a free, fair and democratic referendum under the auspices of the United Nations. The statement continued that the conflict in Kashmir has existed for more than seven decades, and remains a serious bone of contention between the nuclear armed neighbours, India and Pakistan. Both countries have fought wars against each other over this period, and came perilously close to a potentially catastrophic war in February and March of this year, when their Air Forces attacked each other soon after the Pulwama suicide attack.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EIndia and Pakistan deploy thousands of their troops across the Line of Control-LoC- or the ceasefire line -CfL-that forcibly divides Kashmir, and its people under the 1949 UN sponsored armistice. Even when India and Pakistan are supposedly at peace, their forces present an existential threat to lives and livelihood of the civilian population with daily exchanges of fire, across the CfL. The statement added that the on-going pro freedom political dissent in Indian occupied Kashmir, has resulted in immense suffering and hardships for the population. Actions by the Indian military and paramilitary forces, and the use of repressive laws like the PSA and the Armed Forces Special Powers Act AFSPA, that provide the Indian forces of occupation with an umbrella of total impunity against the people, are a \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Eserious cause for concerns by the JKLF leadership and the people of Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EThe statement reiterated JKLF’s position that its leadership will never compromise over the fundamental and inalienable sovereign right of 20 million Kashmiris across both sides of the LoC\/CfL, and in the Diaspora spread across the world. The statement added that the JKLF wishes see Kashmir as a bridge of peace rather than a bone of contention in South Asia, and seeks a meaningful dialogue with both India, and Pakistan under the auspices of the United Nations.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EThe Bureau’s statement however, re-emphasised, that Indian government must release the JKLF Chairman from illegal incarceration and lift its vindictive and politically motivated ban on the JKLF and allow normal political activities to take place in Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir. The statement strongly stressed on the fact that Kashmir is an international issue, and not an internal matter for India. Therefore, there can be no bi- lateral dialogue under the ambit or constitution of the Indian state over the legitimate sovereign right to freedom of Kashmiris divided between India and Pakistan, and can only exercise their inherent and inalienable sovereign right under the supervision of the United Nations ended the statement……\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EProf Zafar Khan\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; 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text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-YlL2iCfknXs\/XHkXb36jrXI\/AAAAAAAADzU\/PS9BikUQKIwqiujh0JKrvkc2A2Ac3GiugCLcBGAs\/s1600\/WhatsApp%2BImage%2B2019-03-01%2Bat%2B10.45.21.jpeg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1200\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-YlL2iCfknXs\/XHkXb36jrXI\/AAAAAAAADzU\/PS9BikUQKIwqiujh0JKrvkc2A2Ac3GiugCLcBGAs\/s320\/WhatsApp%2BImage%2B2019-03-01%2Bat%2B10.45.21.jpeg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003ELondon- 01 March 2019: \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003ESecretary General of the United Nations Mr Antonio Guterres has been told in a letter to him that as long as Kashmir remains a bone of contention between India and Pakistan South Asian region will face a catastrophic and horrendous war over the Kashmir dispute.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EThe letter written by Zafar Khan the Diplomatic affairs head of the JKLF, referred to \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Emilitary actions taken against each other by Indian and Pakistani forces, which presented an imminent threat of full scale war between the two countries over the Kashmir dispute, and pointed out that these actions have dangerously added to an already existing volatile situation not only for twenty million people of Kashmir, but for the entire region of South Asia and beyond. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EIn the letter he reminds the Secretary General that Kashmir has been a bone of contention between India, Pakistan and the people of Kashmir for more than seven decades, and in view of the looming catastrophe people of Kashmir desperately, and impatiently expect statesmanship and leadership role from the UN Secretary General to take decisive steps for a lasting solution of the Kashmir dispute. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EIn the letter Khan strongly urged the Secretary General to ensure that the imminent danger of war between India and Pakistan is averted with post- haste, and that at this crucial juncture in the situation over Kashmir, the UN takes strong and firm actions to end the dispute with a just and lasting solution on the political status of the territory, which will bring about an end to the conflict, and suffering that has caused incalculable miseries for millions of Kashmiris since 1947.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EKhan Exhorts the Secretary General by saying that in order \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Eto achieve the cherished and noble objective of lasting peace, prosperity and empathy in the region, the\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E United Nations \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Emust assume full control of Kashmir’s administration,\u003C\/b\u003E and ask India and Pakistan to vacate the entire state on both sides of the Line of Control –LoC- within three months.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EHe reminded the Secretary General that an ultimate objective of sane human beings must be to strive for peace and prosperity in society, which unfortunately for Kashmiris, as an objective, has remained a mirage due to the conflict, and uncertainty as a direct consequence of Indo-Pakistan confrontation over the past seventy two years.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EZafar Khan emphasised to Mr Guterres that Kashmiris \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Ehave strong, and compelling reasons to expect\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003Efrom the UN and its Secretary General that he takes \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Etheir sincere and considered appeal, seriously and engages with India, Pakistan and the Kashmiri leadership, to set a time-frame within which his \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Eadministration would be able to organise, and prepare for a\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003Efree, fair and democratic referendum\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003Eso that\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EKashmiris would be enabled and empowered\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003Eto decide on the political status of their homeland through the\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003Eexercise of \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Etheir inherent and inalienable right of self-determination.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EHe pointed out to\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EMr Guterres that\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003Ea \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Efree, fair and\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003Edemocratic was the only way-forward out of the Kashmir dispute, which otherwise will remain an ongoing threat to peace in the region, if God forbid it is not already too late!\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EThe UN Secretary General was apprised through the letter that India and Pakistan have fought costly wars over Kashmir in the past, in which citizens of Kashmir have always suffered the most. Another war between the nuclear armed neighbours will cause an annihilation for 20 million Kashmiris as well as for India, Pakistan and their neighbours in the region with an irredeemable destruction.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003ESecretary General was told by Zafar Khan that even when India and Pakistan are supposedly at ‘peace,’ deployment of tens of thousands of their troops in the territory present an existential danger to millions of civilians, and that as he was \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Eno doubt fully aware, \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EKashmiris have never reconciled with the status quo\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003Eas it is the basis of \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Euncertainty over Kashmir’s future, and that Kashmiris have continued to struggle since 1947 for a free, fair, transparent and democratic process to regain the right to decide on the status of their country. He was reminded that he is also fully aware that Kashmiris continue to suffer immensely as a consequence of status quo and the entrenchment of Indo-Pakistan positions on the question of Kashmir’s status.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EThe letter informed the UN Secretary General that Kashmiris are the principle and most aggrieved party in the conflict, and they expect the Secretary General of the UN as the custodian of the world conscience, to accept their right to insist that UN’s moral and legal authority must be exercised in the interest of peace and justice.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EAnd that the Secretary General of the UN will impress upon the leaders of India and Pakistan that neither their 1.5 billion combined population, nor the twenty million people of Kashmir must be held hostage in perpetuity to the dangers of an unresolved and uncertain status of Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EThe Secretary General was reminded therefore, that a UN administered and supervised referendum remained the only democratic and peaceful method for the resolution of Kashmir’s political status permanently.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EZafar Khan further reminded Mr Guterres that the Indo- Pakistan presence in an undecided Kashmir will inevitably perpetuate the ongoing conflict, confrontation and war between India and Pakistan. And their presence is also inconsistent with the aspirations and wishes of the people unless and until, there is an opportunity for them to give a free and a democratic verdict on the question of their country’s future.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EThe Secretary General of the United Nations, was told that it was not in the interest of any people or nation, to be a bone of contention between two powerful countries, as indeed Kashmir and its people are, between their neighbours, India and Pakistan. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EMr Guterres was informed that Kashmiris, like any other people want peace and peaceful resolution of the conflict. And that they wish well for the peoples of India and Pakistan, and insist that their country and they wish to become \u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003Ea bridge of peace\u003C\/b\u003E between India and Pakistan \u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003Einstead of a bone of\u003C\/b\u003E \u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003Econtention\u003C\/b\u003E.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003ESecretary General was told in the letter that “Kashmiris seek your help and support, to enable them to become that bridge of peace in South Asia”! \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EMahmoud Hussain\u003Cbr \/\u003ESecretary of the Diplomatic Bureau \u003Cbr \/\u003EJammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) \u003Cbr \/\u003E119-123 Cannon Street Road, \u003Cbr \/\u003EBasement North\u003Cbr \/\u003ELondon\u003Cbr \/\u003EE1 2LX\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; 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text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-M8j9VeiO4Kw\/WvF6uDH5ynI\/AAAAAAAADxk\/nk9jO-s1q30CCC-ncgoes0-S48PVZPQKwCLcBGAs\/s1600\/Zafar%2BKhan%2Bwith%2BStephen%2BTimms%2BMP%2B-%2BLondon.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"900\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-M8j9VeiO4Kw\/WvF6uDH5ynI\/AAAAAAAADxk\/nk9jO-s1q30CCC-ncgoes0-S48PVZPQKwCLcBGAs\/s320\/Zafar%2BKhan%2Bwith%2BStephen%2BTimms%2BMP%2B-%2BLondon.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E(London, 8 May 2018) Members of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front's\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Diplomatic Bureau, comprising\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;of\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;its head Prof\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Zafar Khan, Mr Mahmoud Hussain and Mr Tariq Sharif, met\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;with British Parliamentarian Mr Stephen Timms, and discussed\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;with him at length on the need for a just and a peaceful resolution of\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;the Kashmir issue based on the fundamental rights of the people.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EMr Timms was briefed by the Diplomatic Bureau members\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;on the current situation, both inside Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir and across the ceasefire line that forcibly divides the state between India and Pakistan.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EThe diplomatic Bureau functionaries conveyed their serious concerns at the unabated militarised violence against civilian population by the Indian military forces that results in many deaths and injuries of innocent people on daily basis. The senior British parliamentarian who served as a minister\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;in both, Blair and Brown Labour Administrations, was also apprised of a culture of impunity that\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;prevails\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;in Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir which is supported\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;by\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;draconian laws such\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;as\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;the Armed Forces Special Powers Act -AFSPA - and Public Safety Act -PSA -that shield the heinous acts of militarised oppression perpetrated by the Indian forces; and to prevent death and destruction the\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Indian military must not come into contact with the civilian population, and must withdraw from the urban and rural areas, particularly in the Valley of\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EMr Timms was briefed on the suppression of peaceful political dissent by Indian authorities through, the denial of fundamental democratic rights, including those of free speech and assembly. And despite claiming to be\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;the biggest democracy in the world, India confines the\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Kashmiris' Joint\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Resistance Leadership\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;comprising of the JKLF Chairman Mr Yasin Malik,\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;leaders of the APHC , Syed Ali Shah Gilani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq,\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;constantly either\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;under house arrest or in custody.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EThe JKLF functionaries informed Mr Timms of the ongoing serious situation across the ceasefire line, and proposed that to ensure safety of the civilian population from death and destruction on daily basis, the Indian and Pakistani forces must disengage along the so called Line of Control-LoC- by withdrawing up to 10 kilometers from their current positions.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EMr Timms assured the JKLF leaders that he would engage with the British Foreign Secretary on the Kashmir issue, and agreed with them that as a world power, and with a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, the United Kingdom should play an effective, and proactive role over the Kashmir issue. Mr Timms assured the members of the Diplomatic Bureau of continuing to work with the JKLF on matters related with the Kashmir issue.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EThe Diplomatic Bureau members\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;passed on to Mr Timms\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;some of the recent correspondences written by it on\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;the need for a just and peaceful settlement of the Kashmir issue as well as on the\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;current situation,\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;to the British Prime minister, the\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;UN Commissioner on Human Rights, and the Secretary General of the Commonwealth.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EMahmood Hussain\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EDiplomatic Bureau\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003ELondon\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6134640400949027682\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2018\/05\/meeting-with-senior-british.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/6134640400949027682"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/6134640400949027682"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2018\/05\/meeting-with-senior-british.html","title":"Meeting with a senior British parliamentarian by the JKLF Diplomatic Bureau in London"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"J K L F"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17912188462951931200"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"19","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_RoCji4VwOvs\/Sg2SrdjusAI\/AAAAAAAAAKw\/t_nQV17OijM\/S220\/jklflag.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-M8j9VeiO4Kw\/WvF6uDH5ynI\/AAAAAAAADxk\/nk9jO-s1q30CCC-ncgoes0-S48PVZPQKwCLcBGAs\/s72-c\/Zafar%2BKhan%2Bwith%2BStephen%2BTimms%2BMP%2B-%2BLondon.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025183395565326371.post-477889149683617485"},"published":{"$t":"2018-04-30T04:10:00.004-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-04-30T04:12:42.921-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Diplomatic"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Tribute to a great visionary leader, Amanullah Khan -"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb style=\"font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003ETribute to a great visionary leader:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;\"\u003E speech delivered on the second death anniversary of Amanullah Khan, legendary leader of the freedom struggle in Kashmir\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-0Dk10sJrQ7c\/Wub5nZ2kpuI\/AAAAAAAADw4\/5GTOLJYImMQGy5dkiOJfghz87vWzVv_wgCLcBGAs\/s1600\/Amanullah_khan_JKLF_New30395.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"292\" data-original-width=\"351\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-0Dk10sJrQ7c\/Wub5nZ2kpuI\/AAAAAAAADw4\/5GTOLJYImMQGy5dkiOJfghz87vWzVv_wgCLcBGAs\/s320\/Amanullah_khan_JKLF_New30395.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003EFriends and colleagues assalamo-alaikum.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EAs we remember\u0026nbsp;our beloved leader and mentor Mr Amanullah Khan\u0026nbsp;on his\u0026nbsp;second death anniversary, our hearts are filled with sorrow at the loss of a fatherly figure. To each one of us he is, and he was an\u0026nbsp;important and\u0026nbsp;special person. We have many memories of Aman sahib, as we always\u0026nbsp;referred to him, and we will cherish these memories as we would of a very close family member.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EI will not tell you anything that you do not already know about Aman sahib. I am sure that many of you have read all the three volumes of his book that chronicle his contribution in the freedom struggle, and indeed about Aman sahib the person who was the founder the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF. I will however reflect and make my observations on this iconic leader of our freedom struggle who for me, as I am sure for many others, was not only the leader but a mentor for almost four decades this year.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"height: 0px;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EAman sahib's importance goes beyond his party members however, and runs deep into\u0026nbsp;the lives of Kashmiris\u0026nbsp;across our forcibly divided country. He struggled all his life for the right of his nation to be free. In the pursuit of this goal he was steadfast and tenacious to the very last breath. This side of his persona for the freedom of our country, is quite clearly a hall mark of a great leader, which he undoubtedly was.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EIn this regard we must follow Aman sahib's tried and tested approach. His experiences of facing adversity, and how he would remain firmly wedded to his political beliefs, and party line, despite the challenges that he faced. Such an approach\u0026nbsp;must be a guiding light for all of us, especially in the current political and diplomatic climate within Jammu Kashmir’s neighbourhood and globally.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EWe must always review our current and future activities based on our abilities and capacities,\u0026nbsp;rather than our wishes and emotions. We have a much bigger overall\u0026nbsp;responsibility than we usually realise, and much more pressing challenges than we usually care to appreciate. We often\u0026nbsp;do and say things that can take us off our desired and required direction. Therefore we must remain\u0026nbsp;focused on the overall objective guided by Aman sahib’s approach of always being able, to find an alternative avenue to remain on course, for the ultimate goal of azadi.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EAman sahib lived and died for his nation and his people. His contribution to the freedom struggle is incomparable. He has left a movement that has made an indelible mark in the liberation struggle across all sections of society in Jammu Kashmir, and has awaken the Kashmiris not only on either side of the ceasefire line in Jammu Kashmir, but within the Diaspora spread right across the world.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ENow that his physical presence is no longer with us, it is incumbent upon each and every one of us to take the liberation struggle to its logical conclusion. It is also a test for the will of our party, and the leadership at all levels of the party structures, to remain focused on the final destination, and the challenges, both internal and external, that our party- the JKLF- is faced with in the struggle.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EAman sahib was born in Astore in Gilgit, and at an early age was taken to the valley of Kashmir for educational and family reasons. He remained there until 1952 when he crossed over to Pakistan as a young man. He was already an activist when he arrived in Pakistan, and remained actively engaged in continuous struggle for freedom of his nation till he breathed his last on 26 April 2016 in Rawalpindi.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EIn between he also spent ten years in the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1986 where he was invited and facilitated by the expatriates who were engaged in political activism with the Plebiscite Front. A year later in 1977 he founded the JKLF in which he was supported by these expatriates from Azad Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003EIn 1986 Aman sahib was deported to Pakistan by the UK government under an administrative order on allegations concerning the abduction and killing of an Indian diplomat, and also because India considered him as an enemy. He was tried in a court of law and was exonerated by the Crown Court of all the charges that were alleged against him by the British government.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003EAman sahib however was implacably opposed to India’s occupation, and stance on Kashmir. His activism was indeed a factor that gave the Indian government the excuse of the diplomat’s killing, to have him removed from the United Kingdom. India did not like being exposed by him and the JKLF at the international level as a country, which completely reneged on her commitments given at the UN on Kashmiris’ right to self-determination.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ETherefore the UK government caved in to intense pressure from India, which also threatened to shelve a deal to buy British Westland military helicopters, which in the end however, India purchased from France instead. Indian threat however, achieved its intended result of having the great freedom fighter removed from the international arena.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ESeven years later in 1993, having been invited to attend a conference at the European Parliament on Kashmir, Aman sahib was arrested under an Interpol warrant executed by the Belgium authorities on India’s behalf. Aman sahib remained incarcerated in Brussels for nearly three months while a Belgian court addressed the 300 page dossier sent against him by the Indian government.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EI visited Aman sahib in prison on number of occasions, and also assisted the team of lawyers which included the renowned Pakistani jurist MS Zafar sahib, in preparation of his legal defence. Seven years earlier in his 1986 trial, I also performed similar duties as well as appearing as one of only two witnesses recommended by Aman sahib to appear for him, the other witness was British Parliamentarian Mr Terry Davis who supported our cause.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EAman sahib was a selfless and single minded leader who dedicated, and devoted every second of his life, for the ultimate goal of freedom, and reunification of his divided country. Even in death this dedication, and devotion is clearly reflected in his wish to be buried in Gilgit, to symbolise the unity of Jammu Kashmir\u0026nbsp;he so passionately advocated, and wanted to see as a free country.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ESymbolism of Gilgit as his final\u0026nbsp;resting place therefore, is important. It is important because it reveals\u0026nbsp;his\u0026nbsp;wisdom and vision in view of Gilgit Baltistan’s position since 1947. Especially since 1947 Pakistan has steadily sought to separate the region physically, psychologically and politically, from rest of Jammu Kashmir as whole.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ELess than three months before Aman sahib passed away, and despite in failing health, he went to Gilgit to mobilise pressure against Pakistan government’s intentions to annex Gilgit Baltistan into its federation as a province. For over a month Aman sahib interacted with notables and opinion makers to create the desired momentum against Islamabad’s decision. The momentum was reinforced later by Mr Yasin Malik when he wrote to Prime Minister of Pakistan calling his government’s decision detrimental to the freedom struggle regarding integration of GB as a province of Pakistan.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EDuring this very intense few days in early January 2016 I was in contact with both Aman sahib and Yasin sahib, and witnessed closely the astute manner in which both leaders acted decisively, to avert a disastrous action by the Pakistan government. Aman sahib however, did say something specific regarding Pakistan, before he took the decision to visit Gilgit, about which I will not give any details for the time being.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003ESuffice to say however, that although he \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003Ewas critical of Pakistan’s Kashmir policy, he was of the considered opinion that Pakistan must extend unconditional political, and diplomatic support on the right of Kashmiris to independence, and unfeterred self-determination. And in this context saw Pakistan’s place in the Kashmir imbroglio different from that of India. And here I am not stating anything that most of us do not know.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EIn his life Aman sahib did not see\u0026nbsp;Jammu Kashmir become an independent country. However in his life time he succeeded in creating a political movement that transcends the division of our country and the nation.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe fact that the JKLF is led by a single leader, and the fact that the JKLF is the only political party spearheading the liberation movement since 1947 that operates on both sides of the ceasefire line, and among Kashmiris in the Diaspora. This not only reflects the unity of a divided country, but also it is a testimony of the achievement by a legendary a leader.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe party has become an iconic political reality of Aman sahib’s legacy for the nation, and indeed those who are committed to a reunified and sovereign political status for Jammu Kashmir, irrespective of their political, ideological, ethnic or religious background. The JKLF of Aman sahib therefore, by its existence guarantees, and ensures the fundamental right of each and every one of us throughout the geographically, fractured state of Jammu Kashmir, to be the real stakeholders on the future status of our country\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EAman sahib was a man of wisdom and vision. And as a visionary leader\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Ehe gave the occupying powers, India and Pakistan an honourable way out that would satiate their respective egos over the Kashmir conflict, and strongly advocated that Jammu Kashmir should become a bridge of peace, and friendship, rather than a bone of contention and enmity between the neighbours.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003EAman sahib was intensely loyal towards his comrades in the party.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EHe knew most party members by name, and always showed humility and respect to all.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E He was a courteous and kind person with enormous generosity of character, and would find the courage to forgive individuals who had wronged him. Aman sahib was spiritual person who was deeply influenced by the example of the Holy Prophet PBUH. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EAman sahib’s loyalty to comrades is quite well exemplified in the manner in which he \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Eensured from the platform of the JKLF, the JKSLF, and indeed through his own written and spoken words, that the sacrifice and shahadat of his colleague and co- ideologue Shaheed-e- Kashmir Muhammad Maqbool Butt becomes, etched in the psyche of the nation. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EIt is therefore, not incidental that Shaheed-e- Kashmir’s martyrdom has become an epitome of a \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Esubjugated nation’s struggle for azadi, for freedom, for liberation and indeed for the strong belief that people of Jammu Kashmir must become the \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Emasters of their own destiny in their own land.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003EAman sahib has rightfully ensured beyond any doubt, that Maqbool Butt’s sacrifice merits, and deserves the recognition, the respect and the gratitude of the entire nation.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ETherefore, for \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Ehis legacy to remain a potent force for independence,\u0026nbsp;we must remain focused and determined about our overall strategy and policy objectives, especially\u0026nbsp;when responding to situations and challenges that might arise from time to time, as indeed they do arise, whether in Azad Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan or in Indian held Jammu Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThose of us who can remember the world as it was twenty years or so ago, can recall how relatively accommodating it was to talk about our cause in London, New York, in Washington or even in many European capitals including Brussels. Not so now and this raises some serious challenges which we as a party have to face up to in a politically mature and objective manner. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003EAman sahib’s example reminds us that we have a solemn duty to be disciplined, and respect the others, not because\u0026nbsp;we agree with them but because it is the right thing, for us to do.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E Aman sahib as a leader was a pragmatist and a democrat, who recognised the rights of those who disagreed with his party’s ideology. He was an ardent advocate of consensus and actively espoused it.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EEven with the successive Azad Kashmir governments Aman sahib made every effort to encourage and espouse within a self-serving leadership, a commitment that would reflect a political and diplomatic relevance of the Azad Kashmir government to the freedom struggle in the name of nearly five million people of Azad Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe struggle to gain our people’s freedom has moved on into a new phase, with new challenges, and new realities as I have alluded to above. We should\u0026nbsp;take\u0026nbsp;cognisance of these realities, especially in our neighbourhood. Our attitude to both India and Pakistan regarding their respective positions on the Kashmir issue, should reflect these realities. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EAman sahib as the architect and ideologue of the struggle, has clearly laid this out for the movement. The overall national interests and objectives of the movement, must remain central to our political and diplomatic activism, irrespective of our feelings and emotions about each country. This objectivity should inform each\u0026nbsp;and every step and action of our\u0026nbsp;tactical and strategic policy formulations, and policy execution, without in any way compromising on our political ideology.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThere should be no confusion about where we are heading. Our destination is clear. Our struggle is for a reunified and\u0026nbsp;independent Jammu Kashmir, whose people must exercise their unfettered right across\u0026nbsp;both sides of the forcibly\u0026nbsp;divided country. It is the people of Jammu Kashmir who must shape a dignified status of their nation, which is consistent with their fundamental rights, and which they exercise freely, and without external domination.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EWe as a party must ensure through our struggle that our people gain the opportunity to exercise their right to decide- the right which is an inherent right, a right that is inalienable and cannot be denied to them by force. This is the clear party ideology, and this is what Aman sahib stood for, struggled for until his last breath.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003EThis is Aman sahib’s legacy and this is what we have to preserve, and move on with objectivity, sincerity, determination and confidence. Aman sahib was\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003Ea strong willed leader with a steely determination. \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EHe was a brave leader who took bold and calculated decisions. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EAman sahib was a strong advocate of a political solution over the Jammu Kashmir issue. He lived a simple life and remained absolutely focused on the freedom struggle. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThis is exactly what Aman sahib expected from himself in his life time, and this is exactly how we should carry on his mission. On the second death anniversary of the great leader, let us pledge that we will remain focused and united in preserving Quaid-e- Tehrek’s legacy. This would be the most appropriate tribute to his long struggle for a free and dignified future of twenty million people across forcibly divided Jammu Kashmir. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EToday we as a party, and our leadership is just as much committed, determined and politically\u0026nbsp;prepared, as we ever were, to achieve these cherished goals of freedom with dignity, and peace with justice. This is what Aman sahib struggled for seventy long years of his life, and this is the steadfast position of our leader and Chairman Mr Yasin Malik today. And as Allah Subhanwa ta’ala is our witness, this is also our position behind him.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EJazak-Allah Khair for listening to me.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EZafar Khan-\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EApril 29- 2018\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; 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margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003EAn open letter to the People of India on the killing fields of Jammu Kashmir: \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003E---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003EAre you aware that in your name the Indian army has killed 100,000 people in Jammu Kashmir since 1988?\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003EAre you aware that 7000,000 Indian troops are considered as an occupation force by Kashmiris?\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003EAre you aware that Kashmir is not a territorial dispute between India and Pakistan?\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003EAre you aware that over one dozen UN resolutions exist on the Kashmir issue?\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003EAre you aware that Kashmiris have not consented to be ruled by India or by any other country?\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003EAs Kashmiris we only wish to exercise the right to decide our political destiny with a peaceful and dignified existence as free people. We hope that for peace, justice and democracy you as free people of India, will support our fundamental right to be free in our own country.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003E---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003EThe Shupian massacre:\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003E9 April 2018\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYour country has deployed hundreds of thousands of military and para military forces in Jammu Kashmir, who kill and maim civilians indiscriminately in militarised violence. The killing spree by the Indian forces in Shupian with 19 killed and over 200 injured, including in Anantnag, Tral, and Kangan, and in other parts of especially the valley of Kashmir, is not an exception. Those killed in such encounters are labelled as militants or Pakistanis by your military to justify death and destruction perpetrated against civilians every day.\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003EWithin this background, one wonders how Prime Minister Modi would justify deaths in Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir, to 53 other leaders whom he will meet at the 25th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting-CHOGM- in a week’s time in London. And how would Mr Modi justify, if he is asked, about the conduct of his country’s army which arrests, tortures and kills civilians. And how would he justify the behaviour of his military and paramilitary forces, whose soldiers callously and vindictively torture, and cripple civilians mercilessly? And how would he justify that the ‘incredible’ largest democracy in the world uses its favourite democratic practices of imprisoning the entire population in the homes, and imposes curfews for weeks on end, to deny democratic rights of free speech and assembly? And when the people come out on the streets against militarised oppression, and engage in peaceful protest your army resorts to the use of its preferred weapon for crowd control, the pellet guns, to blind civilians in their thousands. How would Mr Modi justify, depriving the entire Kashmiri society by shutting down schools, colleges, universities, and other facilities and amenities like mobile phones and the internet, which the rest of contemporary world takes for granted? And above all how would he hide the heinous crimes perpetrated by the army of the ‘incredible’ largest democracy in the world on the social media- loaded up in many cases- by Indian soldiers who commit such acts of depravity to assert and boast about bravery of the Indian army, over the helpless people of Jammu Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003EInevitably as patriotic Indians, you would wonder why the Indian army would and should resort to such unethical conduct that belittles the reputation of a professional military. These acts of violence against Kashmiris are committed by the Indian army to instil fear and a sense of helplessness in the minds of the inhabitants, who wish only to determine their political status as free people. The militarised violence is perpetrated to send a clear message to the people in Jammu Kashmir that they are not the arbiters of their destiny. Under the pretext of militancy, your government, and the military forces are busy in\u0026nbsp;silencing the voice of the people, and their cry for freedom. Your country’s forces that number over\u0026nbsp;seven lakh (seven hundred thousands) in total,\u0026nbsp;have wreaked havoc and devastation in the lives of millions of civilians over the past 30 years. During this period, in your name the Indian military, has killed as many as a hundred thousand civilians, and the count is rising with the latest indiscriminate killings in Shupian. Your military forces have got into the habit of even shooting directly with bullets and pellets at funeral prayers which are offered for those killed by the Indian army during peaceful protests.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003EHow ironic therefore, that an Indian court awards a sentence of five years to a famous film star for shooting a blackbuck, while your country’s soldiers are awarded with promotions and bonuses for killing women and children, and using civilians as human shields in Jammu Kashmir. Under the cover of laws such as the Armed Forces Special Powers Act- AFSPA- and Public Safety Act-PSA-, your army acts with impunity in Kashmir. Rape of Kashmiri women is used as a weapon. Youth of Kashmir is particularly a favourite target of your forces. Many are deliberately targeted during peaceful political demonstrations with the aim to kill. Those arrested are never seen again by their loved ones. There are over seven thousand unmarked graves all over Jammu Kashmir, and particularly in the valley of Kashmir. Up to eight thousand people are missing. Your government, and the army have a lot of explaining to do, in terms of the Indian state’s conduct in what can only be described, as war crimes against the people in Jammu Kashmir. Your government knows full well that Jammu Kashmir\u0026nbsp;is not a territorial dispute between India and Pakistan- it is an issue that is about the right of 20 million people to freedom, and self-determination\u0026nbsp;across both sides of the ceasefire line.\u0026nbsp;Our simple question as Kashmiris to the people of India is- for how long can the world be hood-winked by your government in believing\u0026nbsp;that in Jammu Kashmir India is fighting ‘terrorism’ or Pakistan? The truth and reality in Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir is that an entire nation is being held hostage against its will in subjugation with a massive military presence by your country. Jammu Kashmir is the most militarised region in the world. And your army has unleashed a militarised reign of terror in the territory. Your government refuses even to\u0026nbsp;allow the UN\u0026nbsp;to investigate human rights excesses, and violations committed against civilian population by the regular military and a plethora of para military forces.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003EAs patriotic citizens of India you may choose not to accept the militarised oppression being committed in your name by the Indian state in Jammu Kashmir. However, the reality is that your government has given a licence to the Indian army to kill, pillage, and perpetrate acts of violence and destruction with impunity. As already pointed out Indian forces use Kashmiris as human shields, which is an\u0026nbsp;incontrovertible reality. Your military operates under the umbrella of draconian laws that give it complete immunity since under these laws a culture of impunity has become prevalent in Jammu Kashmir, which gives rise to a massive violation of fundamental human, civil and political rights of millions of ordinary Kashmiris. If what we say is not true about the conduct of Indian forces in Jammu Kashmir, then why wouldn't\u0026nbsp;Indian government accede to the UN’s requests for an independent scrutiny of the situation? \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003EYour government has refused to allow the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights-UNHCHR- to visit Jammu Kashmir, despite repeated requests by the world body. What is Indian government scared of? Is your country’s government hiding its ugly militarised violence, in India’s undeclared war against the people of Jammu Kashmir? Perhaps the government of India, and the Indian army consider their actions in Kashmir above domestic and international law? We would expect of you that as patriotic citizens of India, you would consider it your national duty to pose these questions to Mr Modi, on the conduct of your army in the killing fields of Jammu Kashmir, as he contemplates engaging with fellow Commonwealth leaders in London at the 25th CHOGM in a week’s time. It is quite likely that fellow participants of the CHOGM may well choose to do so on the suffering of civilians that prevails in Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003EIt could be however, that in the face of India’s aggressive diplomacy within the United Nations, and the international system of inter- state relations, and like the people of India the international community is wrong sighted about the full extent, to which the helpless and forsaken inhabitants of Jammu Kashmir, are being oppressed by your country’s military forces? And therefore, like you the good people of India, the international community also finds it expedient to hide behind the all too familiar and obvious pretext,\u0026nbsp;that Jammu Kashmir is a ‘bilateral dispute' between India and Pakistan? Thus as within the people of India the international public opinion is also not fully aware about the plight of Kashmiri masses. This no doubt creates a diplomatic escape route for India when it kills dozens of civilians and claims that they were militants or as the BBC reported, suspected militants, in the case of the\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Emassacre in Shupian on April 2, and indeed countless other massacres and excesses that have taken place throughout Indian held Jammu Kashmir over the past thirty years. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003EFor example it would be absolutely unlikely that disappearance of over eight thousand men, mostly picked up from their homes, and never seen or heard since their arrests, would be forgotten by their families and their nation. And what explanations would Prime Minister Modi give at the CHOGM in London if he is taken to task, and asked about the thousands of unmarked graves, and the eight thousand disappeared in Jammu Kashmir? Or would he continue to prevaricate, and escape with the customary intransigence, and double-speak over the conduct of the Indian military against the civilian population? We must remind you in all sincerity that sooner rather than later, the truth will come into the open. And when it does, your pride and reputation as Indians will surely be hurt, and suffer in the comity of nations; especially when responsibility of heinous crimes perpetrated against the civilian population , will squarely be levelled against India.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003EPresently Indian held Jammu Kashmir is not open to international media. And the Indian media, despite its claims, is totally biased against the genuine peaceful dissent of the masses. Like the Indian army and the government, Indian media too, considers the struggle of the people in Jammu Kashmir as Pakistani inspired, and not indigenous. This is a complete distortion of the reality of our peaceful struggle to be a free people. \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EFurthermore how India’s huge military presence impacts on the lives of millions of people, is the most closely guarded secret in the world today. India is silencing a\u0026nbsp;genuine political dissent of the people in Jammu Kashmir; and has been for decades! India has reneged on all\u0026nbsp;the international commitments it made on the issue of Jammu Kashmir’s future status at the UN. And yet India demands a permanent seat as member of the UNSC, when in reality India does not even subscribe to the UN system of arbitration, and search for solutions over international disputes. If it did the issue of Jammu Kashmir’s future status would have been resolved by now; especially since there are more than a dozen UN resolutions specifically on the issue of Jammu Kashmir’s future status. Therefore, it is an absolute travesty of truth and justice that in your name successive Indian governments call Jammu Kashmir as an ‘integral’ part of India. We must strongly reiterate that we do not consider Jammu Kashmir to be part of either India or Pakistan.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003EYour country also does not recognise the UN Charter in its entirety. Therefore, while Mr Modi’s claim for a permanent seat on the UNSC may be based on India’s size and economic power, the international community however may not be persuaded to look the other way anymore, and continue to be misled about the true nature of the Kashmir dispute. The most important and central party in this dispute is the Kashmiri nation, comprising of twenty million\u0026nbsp;people across both sides of the cease-fire line, that forcibly divides them between India and Pakistan. \u003Cbr \/\u003EIndia claims to be the so called biggest democracy in the world, whether this claim is true, only you the Indian people, are the best judges to substantiate. But this is most definitely not the case as far as Jammu Kashmir and millions of its people, under your country’s occupation are concerned. In Kashmir India is an occupying power, and has been since it invaded an independent country in October 1947. Ever since 1947 India has trampled on the fundamental right of the people, including their right to freedom of expression, of assembly\u0026nbsp;and above all the right to life as free people. In your name India stifles and puts down political dissent. Imprisons and incarcerates political leaders who engage in peaceful political dissent. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003EThis is exemplified by the way your government has treated the Joint Resistance Leadership-JRL- over the past two years. This treatment is indicative of your government’s attitude to the people of Jammu Kashmir and a peaceful resolution of the dispute over their future political status. The JRL is confined to house arrest or incarcerated in jail. Over the past two years Mr Yasin Malik the Chairman of the JKLF has been in and out of Srinagar central jail on dozens of times, while Sayed Ali Shah Gilani and the Mirwaiz Umar Farooq are constantly confined to house arrest. There are numerous restrictions imposed on the JRL. It is denied the democratic right to engage with the people. The JRL has been prevented from travelling to Shupian to condole the bereaved families of those killed by the Indian army on 2 April. Mr Yasin Malik was incarcerated and released only on 8 April from Srinagar central jail. A deliberate policy of communal divide is being promoted and orchestrated by your government in Jammu Kashmir. The leadership is not allowed to travel with in Jammu Kashmir and interact with all the sections of society, including religious minorities. The Indian government uses PSA to prevent peaceful and legitimate political dissent in Kashmir, and yet India portrays itself as the biggest democracy of the world. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYour governments claim that Jammu Kashmir is part of India their ruler acceded to India in 1947 we must humbly remind you that \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003Ethe idea of the right to self-determination as a concept implies, that those who are governed must give their consent to be governed, and that people have the right to shape their own destiny, and their right in shaping their destiny must be recognised as sovereign right. This patently is not the case as regards the relationship of people of Kashmir vis-a’vis India and Pakistan.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EYou must recognise, and accept the reality that with seven lakh Indian soldiers deployed in Jammu Kashmir, one wonders what on earth your country’s idea of Jammu Kashmir being an ‘integral’ part of India means? Your huge military in Jammu Kashmir is a hostile force, which has subjugated the people of Jammu Kashmir by force. The people of Jammu Kashmir have not given their consent to your country to rule over them. If ever there was consent it was conditional, and India has not fulfilled its side of the obligations in the temporary arrangements of 1947. India treats Kashmir as a colony and we as Kashmiris feel as colonised people. Thus as people of Jammu Kashmir we do not have a covenant with either India or Pakistan, nor have we given our consent to be ruled by either one or the other country. This is a basic fact that we sincerely wish to convey to you, as we protest throughout the world against the militarised violence perpetrated by the Indian army in Jammu Kashmir against our people.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EFinally, we would like to remind you that as peaceful people, we have always desired for Jammu Kashmir, to become a bridge of peace between India and Pakistan, and not a perpetual bone of contention. We hope that, as your Prime Minister prepares to depart for London to attend the 25th CHOGM, you would advise him as patriotic citizens of your country, to accept the wise counsel of his fellow leaders, from the family of Commonwealth nations to embark on a peaceful resolution of the future status of Jammu Kashmir based on the undeterred right of twenty million Kashmiris to self-determination. This is the only practical and sane wayforward.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003ESincerely\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EProf Zafar Khan Chairman of Diplomatic Bureau\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EJammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EInternational Secretariat-119-123 Cannon Street Road\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003ELondon E1 2LX\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EPresented at the Indian High Commission in London by:\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EMr Sabir Gul President JKLF UK Chapter\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EMr Tahseen Gilani General Secretary JKLF UK Chapter\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EMr Tariq Sharif Member of JKLF’s Diplomatic Bureau\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6801927286011534352\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2018\/04\/an-open-letter-to-people-of-india-on.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/6801927286011534352"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/6801927286011534352"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2018\/04\/an-open-letter-to-people-of-india-on.html","title":"An open letter to the People of India on the killing fields of Jammu Kashmir: "}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"J K L F"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17912188462951931200"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"19","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_RoCji4VwOvs\/Sg2SrdjusAI\/AAAAAAAAAKw\/t_nQV17OijM\/S220\/jklflag.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025183395565326371.post-224725014119956489"},"published":{"$t":"2018-03-07T04:39:00.003-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-03-07T04:39:50.551-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Diplomatic"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Press Release"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Plight of a nation: The forgotten People of Jammu Kashmir."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EHis Excellency Mr Antonio Guterres -Secretary General of the United Nations\u003Cbr \/\u003EUN HQ New York, \u003Cbr \/\u003ENY 10017 USA\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EDate: 28 February 2018\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EC\/o United Nations office in Belgium, Rue Montoyer 14, 1000 Brussels\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EPlight of a nation: The forgotten People of Jammu Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EDear Excellency, as you are the custodian of world’s collective conscience, we would like you to take urgent steps and extend practical support, to the plight of the forgotten people of Jammu Kashmir, both within the Indian held part of the state, and along the ceasefire-line CfL, known also as the Line of Control- LoC- that divides Jammu Kashmir and its 20 million people between India and Pakistan.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EWe would like your Excellency to take serious notice of the undeclared war that has escalated since 2016 between the armies of India and Pakistan, deployed eyeball to eyeball along the Cfl, with the result of causalities in hundreds, including many deaths of civilians on both sides of the divide. Since beginning of 2018 alone, dozens of civilians have been killed along the Pakistan controlled part of the Cfl. This daily carnage of innocent civilians is particularly galling, since the Indian army appears clearly to target civilian population along the thickly populated border villages.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EYour excellency may be reminded that young children playing in their homes or going to school, people engaged in their daily activities are shot to be killed as was the case with an eight year old named Ayan Zahid in the village of Janjot Bahadur in Khuiratta sector, Zain Imtiaz of Nakyal sector Inzamam Amin of Tetrinote, and countless others in villages along the almost five hundred miles long Cfl. We hope that members of the UNMOGIP, who are operational on the Pakistani controlled parts of the CFL, will have kept your Excellency’s office informed of the deaths, and destruction along the forced divide in Jammu Kashmir. We expect and anticipate that your Excellency will demand, that the Indian government allows UNMOGIP personnel, to also operate along the Indian held side of the Cfl to ascertain, the full impact of cross Cfl\/LoC firing on the civilian population.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EExcellency, on this occasion we take the opportunity also to impress upon you, the utmost importance of safety of innocent civilians along the ceasefire line, and within the Indian held part of Jammu Kashmir. Indian army and paramilitary forces over the past two years, have killed around two hundred innocent civilians, and more than ten thousand have been wounded, many of them children with life changing injuries, including loss of sight and limbs due to indiscriminate, and unbridled use of force by the Indian military throughout the towns and villages, especially in the valley of Kashmir. The Indian military and paramilitary forces operate against peaceful dissent with impunity, and cause death of innocent civilians and destruction of their properties whenever they come into contact with the civil population.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EExcellency, as the conscience of the oppressed, exploited and subjugated millions in the world, we urge you to take urgent steps over Jammu Kashmir, and to uphold the right of 20 million people to exercise their sovereign will on the future status of their country, and to ensure their safety and protection from the constant fear of death and destruction in their own country. India and Pakistan have abysmally failed to resolve the Kashmir issue. Even their bilateral Shimla Accord of 1972, is all but dead. India no longer recognises the incontrovertible fact that 20 million people have an inalienable right to freedom and independence. With its military might and economic power, India is acting as a colonial power that in reality, it is in Jammu Kashmir! We urge your Excellency to bring both India, Pakistan and the people of Jammu Kashmir to the dialogue table, and ensure a durable settlement of the issue for the sake of peace, justice and prosperity in Jammu Kashmir and the wider region. Excellency 20 million people of Jammu Kashmir are eagerly prepared to become \u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003Ea bridge of peace between India and Pakistan. \u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003EHowever Excellency, lives of our people are blighted by the presence, and the entrenched positions, in Jammu Kashmir of both India and Pakistan. The democratic rights of our people are trampled upon, and the pro freedom Joint Resistance leadership-JRL- is confined to house arrests, and frequently incarcerated in jail, as is the case with Chairman of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front Mr Yasin Malik. Peaceful and democratic resistance, and expression is violently suppressed, and political space is deliberately denied to the people and the leadership by the Indian government, to engineer alienation with peaceful methods of political dissent and resistance within the masses. The political aggression and belligerence of Indian government in Jammu Kashmir reflects a fickle attitude, and sham democracy that smacks of an utter contempt, for the democratic right of the Kashmiris, who wish to chalk out their political destiny in accordance with their sovereign right, and sovereignty over their country’s political status.\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EExcellency in order to deliver the people of Jammu Kashmir from the seventy years of forced separation, and occupation we urge you to take the following immediate steps: \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003ETo ensure safety of civilians and protection of their property along the ceasefire line, we urge your Excellency that you engage with India and Pakistan, and demand an immediate demilitarisation of their forces from the Ceasefire Line- Cfl\/LoC- by ten kilometres from their current positions.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003ETo ensure safety of civilians and protection of their property within the Indian held Jammu Kashmir, we urge your Excellency that you demand an immediate removal from civilian areas, of Indian military and paramilitary forces, and that these forces remain billeted in their cantonments, and avoid contact with the civilian population including with those engaged in peaceful political protest and\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003Eresistance; as these forces are responsible for causing death, lasting suffering, untold misery to civilians and destruction of their properties.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EWe urge your Excellency to, extend the powers, and enhance the capacity of UNMOGIP to ensure effective monitoring of the situation and widen its mandate to cover areas other than the ceasefire line Cfl\/ LoC.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EWe urge your Excellency to actively engage with the government of India, and the government of Pakistan, to ensure that their armies vacate Jammu Kashmir, and that both countries ensure an orderly, and speedy transfer of power to 20 million people of Jammu Kashmir, as part of a permanent settlement of the conflict.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EExcellency we desire peace and prosperity for Jammu Kashmir, and for a billion and half people of India and Pakistan. However we will not give up our inherent, inalienable and sovereign right to freedom, and refuse to become the forgotten people in South Asia!\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003ESincerely,\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EProf Zafar Khan- Head of Diplomatic Bureau- Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EInternational Secretariat-119-123 Cannon Street Road London E1 2LX \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003ETanveer Chaudhry President JKLF Europe Zone\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/feeds\/224725014119956489\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2018\/03\/plight-of-nation-forgotten-people-of.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/224725014119956489"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/224725014119956489"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2018\/03\/plight-of-nation-forgotten-people-of.html","title":"Plight of a nation: The forgotten People of Jammu Kashmir."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"J K L F"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17912188462951931200"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"19","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_RoCji4VwOvs\/Sg2SrdjusAI\/AAAAAAAAAKw\/t_nQV17OijM\/S220\/jklflag.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025183395565326371.post-1969475923236955909"},"published":{"$t":"2018-02-26T09:44:00.003-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-02-26T09:44:31.586-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Diplomatic"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Press Release"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"JKLF’s Diplomatic Bureau met with British Foreign and Commonwealth Office,-FCO- in London"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EStatement for Press \u0026amp; Media on the meeting with the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office-FCO- officials \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Eby a delegation of \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EJammu Kashmir Liberation Front’s diplomatic Bureau:\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003ELondon - 26 February 2018: \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EA delegation of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF’s- Diplomatic Bureau, led by its head Prof Zafar Khan, met with British Foreign and Commonwealth Office,-FCO- officials on 22 February, and discussed at length \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Ethe current situation in Jammu Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EThe delegation conveyed to the FCO a message from JKLF’s Chairman Mr Yasin Malik, as well as the need for British Government’s role in support of setting up of a Mediation Panel on Jammu Kashmir by the Commonwealth family of \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Enations, on the ongoing serious situation on the ceasefire-line in Jammu Kashmir, and the oppression within Indian Held Jammu Kashmir by \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EIndian military and paramilitary forces; and the need for demilitarisation of Indian and Pakistani forces in Jammu Kashmir including along the ceasefire line-CFL- or the Line of Control-LoC.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EWhile conveying Mr Yasin Malik’s message, the delegation reminded the British government that the JKLF and the people of Jammu Kashmir gave up militancy in 1994, and adopted a political and diplomatic path towards resolving the issue of Kashmir’s future status at the behest of Britain, and other western countries including the USA. However increasingly the Indian government has become more belligerent and aggressively violent in its suppression of Kashmiris’ individual and collective political, and human rights over the years with a complete denial and deprivation of political space. The JKLF delegation conveyed to the FCO officials that the Joint resistance leadership-JRL- is restricted in its movements and political engagement by the Indian authorities, and Mr Yasin Malik in particular, is consistently subjected to incarceration through a revolving door policy by the Indian government since 2016. The delegation pointed out that the leadership is deliberately denied contact and engagement with the people in Jammu Kashmir by the Indian authorities in order to create mistrust and socio-political cleavages within the diverse society of Jammu Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EThe delegation called on the British government to take a serious note of the growing frustration of the youth in Jammu Kashmir at the systematic process of intimidation, arbitrary arrests, and harsh treatment meted out to families of individuals, in particular the young, who take part in peaceful resistance. Through deliberate harassment, intimidation and suppression of peaceful political expression, the Indian authorities are forcing the youth to shun the political path. The delegation reminded the British Foreign Office that, despite being confronted by an extremely difficult, and stifling political climate created by the communalism of the BJP\/RSS nexus in Jammu Kashmir, the JRL is resisting India’s sinister machinations against the popular struggle for freedom by sticking to peaceful political methods of resistance.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EThe delegation called on the British government to support the proposal by the JKLF for setting up of a panel of Mediators at the forthcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting,-CHOGM- being hosted by Britain in April 2018. The head of the delegation Prof Zafar Khan referred to the letters written in this regard by the Diplomatic Bureau of the JKLF to Baroness Scotland, the Secretary General of the Commonwealth, and Mrs Theresa May the UK Prime Minister, respectively on the importance of the Commonwealth family of 52 nations, to play an active role on Jammu Kashmir issue by setting up a panel of mediators, to engage with India, Pakistan and the Kashmiri leadership towards an equitable solution of the Jammu Kashmir issue.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EThe delegation reminded the FCO that the current situation on the CFL or the LoC was extremely serious due to daily exchanges of fire by Indian and Pakistani armies with heavy weapons that cause deaths of innocent Kashmiri civilians on both sides of the divide. Scores of innocent men, women and children are being killed daily, particularly along the Pakistan controlled side of the line where by and large, the CFL is heavily populated with civilian settlements. It seems quite clear that the Indian army deliberately targets the villagers in their homes and during their daily activities. The delegation called on the British Government to support JKLF’s demand for an immediate demilitarisation of the CFL with the withdrawal of Indian and Pakistani forces by ten kilometres from their current positions, to ensure safety of civilians, and protection of their livelihood. The delegation also called upon the British government to support JKLF’s demand that the Indian military and paramilitary forces return to their cantonments, and avoid contact with civilian population, as these forces are responsible for deaths of innocent civilians and destruction of their property on daily basis. The delegation strongly reiterated the stance of the JKLF that armies of both India and Pakistan must vacate Jammu Kashmir with active involvement of the international community, and both countries must ensure an early transfer of power to 20 million people of Jammu Kashmir as part of a permanent resolution of the Jammu Kashmir conflict.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EThe head of the delegation Prof Zafar Khan, accompanied by JKLF’senior leaders, including Mr Mahmoud Hussain, Syed Tehsin Gilani and Mr Tariq Sharif, reminded the FCO officials, that British policy on Jammu Kashmir was not appropriately consistent with Britain’s international status and historic responsibilities. \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EAs permanent member of the United Nations Security Council-UNSC-, and head of British Commonwealth, Britain could not justifiably hide behind Indo- Pakistan bilateralism on Jammu Kashmir, as this position amounted to support of Jammu Kashmir’s occupation and denial of the right of Kashmiris to decide on their future status and political destiny.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EThe officials were reminded that Britain enjoyed friendly relations with India and Pakistan, and has an important stake in a peaceful South Asia. As nuclear powers Indo- Pak confrontation over Jammu Kashmir is a serious threat to regional and international stability and human progress. India and Pakistan have fought a number of wars against each other, and have entrenched claims on Jammu Kashmir, and cannot be trusted to resolve the conflict over Kashmir. And that the Kashmir issue can only be resolved within the people centric context, and active involvement of influential nations like the United Kingdom within the international community.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EThus, Britain has a duty to engage with leaders of both India and Pakistan the delegation urged the British government to do so \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Efor the sake of peace and prosperity of the sub-continent and justice for twenty million people of Jammu Kashmir, during the forthcoming CHOGM in April. The delegation reminded the FCO that up to a million strong British Kashmiri diaspora was also unhappy with the indifferent attitude of the UK government on Kashmir issue. The delegation reminded the FCO that Kashmiris want Jammu Kashmir to become a bridge of peace and stability in the region but will not accede to enforced division and oppression represented by the\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003Estatus quo. \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EMahmoud Hussain\u003Cbr \/\u003ESecretary\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EDiplomatic Bureau of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front\u003Cbr \/\u003EInternational Secretariat\u003Cbr \/\u003E119-123 Cannon Street Road, Basement North\u003Cbr \/\u003ELondon E1 2LX\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E----------END-------------\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1969475923236955909\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2018\/02\/jklfs-diplomatic-bureau-met-with.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/1969475923236955909"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/1969475923236955909"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2018\/02\/jklfs-diplomatic-bureau-met-with.html","title":"JKLF’s Diplomatic Bureau met with British Foreign and Commonwealth Office,-FCO- in London"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"J K L F"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17912188462951931200"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"19","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_RoCji4VwOvs\/Sg2SrdjusAI\/AAAAAAAAAKw\/t_nQV17OijM\/S220\/jklflag.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025183395565326371.post-1816200657879689883"},"published":{"$t":"2018-02-09T09:42:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-02-09T09:42:12.184-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Diplomatic"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Kashmiri nation awaits Maqbool Butt’s return to the Homeland. "},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E9 February 2018\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EKashmiri nation awaits Maqbool Butt’s return to the Homeland. His mortal remains must be released by government of India.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-bS2GjzQ1dpQ\/Sgr8-rwLwoI\/AAAAAAAAAJk\/OMMR79pOBuoqPy73t721z22yMgC2odYCgCPcBGAYYCw\/s1600\/maqbutt.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"515\" data-original-width=\"350\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-bS2GjzQ1dpQ\/Sgr8-rwLwoI\/AAAAAAAAAJk\/OMMR79pOBuoqPy73t721z22yMgC2odYCgCPcBGAYYCw\/s200\/maqbutt.jpg\" width=\"135\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EAt home and in the diaspora, on 11 February every year, people of Jammu Kashmir mark the day, as a day of resolve and affirmation of their right to freedom, and independence in reunified Jammu Kashmir. \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EThis is the day when Kashmiris demand that government of India releases mortal remains of Muhammad Maqbool Butt, and hands them over to his family, and his nation. Since his judicial murder by the Indian government on 11 February 1984, Maqbool Butt’s mortal remains are buried in a corner of the notorious Tihar Jail in India. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EIndian government with its usual obduracy, and intransigence on all issues relating to the future status of Jammu Kashmir, refuses to release Maqbool Butt’s body, despite repeated demands for its return to his homeland. Over the years successive Indian governments have consistently, and in a blatantly callous manner, refused to release the mortal remains, either to his family, or in the care of his party-the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF-. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003ESince the day of his hanging, an empty grave awaits Maqbool Butt’s mortal remains, to be interned at the Martyrs’ cemetery in Srinagar, with the respect and dignity that befits a valiant son of the soil, whom the Kashmiris regard, across both sides of the ceasefire line, as the father of their nation. Maqbool Butt is a national hero, and his martyrdom is a symbol and epitome of peoples’ struggle, to become masters of their destiny in a reunified Jammu Kashmir that is cohesive, prosperous and at peace with itself, and its neighbours. Maqbool Butt was a strong advocate of the sovereign rights of his compatriots over their own country’s destiny, and did not accept either Indian, or Pakistani claims on his nation’s political destiny.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EMaqbool Butt has become a symbol of resistance, and an inspirational icon to his people, especially the young, who long to see their homeland freed and reunited, as envisaged by their martyred leader. Demand for the return of Maqbool Butt’s mortal remains will continue, as well as the demand and the struggle for which, he was judicially murdered by a country’s government that has reneged on all the solemn pledges, it made before the international community on the Kashmiris’ right to freedom.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EIndia also refuses to release mortal remains of Afzal Guru, whom the Indian government hanged on trumped up charges in February 2013. This clearly shows India’s tyrannical policies towards Kashmir, and an utter disregard for the civil and political rights of Kashmiris. Undoubtedly Indian government follows a vindictive, oppressive and colonialist paradigm, to reinforce its political hegemony, and occupation of Jammu Kashmir by continued imprisonment of Maqbool Butt and Afzal Guru even in death!\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EThis in reality, is the true face of Indian democracy, which on 34th martyrdom anniversary of the most illustrious son of the soil, Kashmiris at home and abroad will continue to expose, as they do today, on this 11th day of February 2018, from Srinagar to Muzaffarabad, and from London to Brussels, North America and in many other cities of the world. Rallies, vigils, seminars and public gatherings held on this day, are a testimony \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Eof the expression of solidarity, and determination, by the Kashmiris with Maqbool Butt’s struggle and sacrifice, and Maqbool Butt’s right as the father of the nation, and Afzal Guru \u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Eto be buried in their homeland-Kashmir. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-uhFrauhxJog\/SrthTePAifI\/AAAAAAAAAz4\/6KrzSb7WVTcEcclEVuZkMlt87S73uwQbwCPcBGAYYCw\/s1600\/zafar-khan.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"377\" data-original-width=\"250\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-uhFrauhxJog\/SrthTePAifI\/AAAAAAAAAz4\/6KrzSb7WVTcEcclEVuZkMlt87S73uwQbwCPcBGAYYCw\/s320\/zafar-khan.jpg\" width=\"212\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt;\"\u003EJammu Kashmir Liberation Front: \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt;\"\u003EThe Diplomatic Bureau- International Secretariat: \u003Cbr \/\u003E119-123 (North Basement) Cannon Street Road,\u003Cbr \/\u003ELondon\u003Cbr \/\u003EE1 2LX\u003Cbr \/\u003EEmail \u003Ca href=\"mailto:info@jklf.co.uk\"\u003Einfo@jklf.co.uk\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoHyperlink\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1816200657879689883\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2018\/02\/kashmiri-nation-awaits-maqbool-butts.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/1816200657879689883"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/1816200657879689883"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2018\/02\/kashmiri-nation-awaits-maqbool-butts.html","title":"Kashmiri nation awaits Maqbool Butt’s return to the Homeland. "}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"J K L F"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17912188462951931200"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"19","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_RoCji4VwOvs\/Sg2SrdjusAI\/AAAAAAAAAKw\/t_nQV17OijM\/S220\/jklflag.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-bS2GjzQ1dpQ\/Sgr8-rwLwoI\/AAAAAAAAAJk\/OMMR79pOBuoqPy73t721z22yMgC2odYCgCPcBGAYYCw\/s72-c\/maqbutt.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025183395565326371.post-2617208616840371315"},"published":{"$t":"2018-02-05T08:47:00.003-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-02-05T08:47:28.504-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Diplomatic"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Press Release"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"JKLF- condemns killing of civilians across the ceasefire Line, and in Indian held Jammu Kashmir. "},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003ELondon (\u003Cspan class=\"aBn\" data-term=\"goog_1526907610\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;\" tabindex=\"0\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"aQJ\" style=\"position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;\"\u003E5 February 2018\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003EThe JKLF has strongly condemned the ongoing firing and shelling across the ceasefire line between the Indian and Pakistani forces in Jammu Kashmir, and violent suppression of political dissent by Indian forces in Indian held part of the forcibly divided country. In a statement issued by the head of JKLF’s Diplomatic Bureau\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;from London today, the JKLF has called on the United Nations to ensure safety of civilians both inside Indian held Jammu Kashmir, and along both sides of the ceasefire line as a priority, through strengthening the role of its UNMOGIP contingent in the region. The JKLF has called on the UN to institute urgent measures to demilitarise the ceasefire line and demand assurances from the opposing armies for safety of civilians in the border areas.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003EThe statement also took a strong note of the continuing deaths of innocent civilians in Shopian and elsewhere in the Valley of Kashmir at the hands of the Indian army. And termed the current situation intolerable, and unbecoming of a civilised world when civilians are deliberately targeted by a professional army, whether in Shopian, Pulwama, Kupwara, Handwara, Bandipur in Indian held Jammu Kashmir, or in Jagalpar Kuiratta, Nykyal, Poonch, Neelam valley or indeed many parts of Pakistan administered Jammu Kashmir. The only result of such military actions is death and injury to innocent civilians of all ages. The international community has a moral and legal responsibility to censure those responsible for causing misery, death and desolation to innocent lives.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003EThe JKLF statement pointed out that for seventy years, India and Pakistan are locked in\u0026nbsp;conflict over their claims and counter claims on Jammu Kashmir. Both countries\u0026nbsp;have fought full scale wars, and daily exchanges of fire by their armies along the almost five hundred miles long cease-fire line, makes it absolutely impossible for tens of thousands of civilians, to lead a normal existence. Many lives are destroyed through death and destruction. Children whose parents put them to bed at night are found dead in the mornings with bullets and bomb shrapnels pierced through their tiny bodies. This carnage of innocent lives takes place because Indian and Pakistani armies are deployed eyeball to eyeball along the ceasefire line.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003EThe JKLF statement added that the Indo-Pakistan confrontation causes immense suffering and miseries for people on both sides with nothing in sight by way of redress and justice. The entrenched positions of both countries have rendered 20 million forcibly divided people invisible, which is nothing less than a tragedy of epic proportions for Jammu Kashmir- a country- as big as Great Britain in size. Indian and Pakistani military presence in Jammu Kashmir is a constant physical and psychological threat, and danger to the safety and wellbeing of the people. Their presence is also an impediment to peace in the region and the world as both countries are nuclear powers.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003EThe JKLF statement concluded by exhorting the United Nations to take urgent actions to disengage Indian and Pakistani military forces from the civilian population not only on the borders across both sides of the ceasefire line, but also force Indian military into cantonments. The JKLF urged the United Nations to appoint a special rapporteur to investigate the many violations of basic human rights of the people of Jammu Kashmir.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;The statement called on the international community to persuade India and Pakistan to provide unhindered access to the international and local media to report freely on the current situation on the ceasefire line.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003EZafar Khan:\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Head of Diplomatic Bureau, Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front –JKLF-\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cu\u003ELondon Secretariat:\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cwbr\u003E\u003C\/wbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;119-123 (Basement North) Cannon Street Road, London E1 2LX\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cu\u003EEmail:\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cwbr\u003E\u003C\/wbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"mailto:info@jklf.co.uk\" style=\"color: #1155cc;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Einfo@jklf.co.uk\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2617208616840371315\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2018\/02\/jklf-condemns-killing-of-civilians.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/2617208616840371315"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/2617208616840371315"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2018\/02\/jklf-condemns-killing-of-civilians.html","title":"JKLF- condemns killing of civilians across the ceasefire Line, and in Indian held Jammu Kashmir. "}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"J K L F"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17912188462951931200"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"19","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_RoCji4VwOvs\/Sg2SrdjusAI\/AAAAAAAAAKw\/t_nQV17OijM\/S220\/jklflag.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025183395565326371.post-4571629923365918095"},"published":{"$t":"2018-01-24T03:32:00.003-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-01-24T03:32:59.532-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Diplomatic"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Commonwealth nations must play their role, for an equitable solution of the Jammu Kashmir issue"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-k4qx1MOalfk\/Wmhu0HyzFRI\/AAAAAAAADv4\/dgLz2zSJutwXVhmF1ZBjTiowjwI_-4u-ACLcBGAs\/s1600\/WhatsApp%2BImage%2B2018-01-23%2Bat%2B5.05.28%2BPM%2B%25281%2529.jpeg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"768\" data-original-width=\"1024\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-k4qx1MOalfk\/Wmhu0HyzFRI\/AAAAAAAADv4\/dgLz2zSJutwXVhmF1ZBjTiowjwI_-4u-ACLcBGAs\/s320\/WhatsApp%2BImage%2B2018-01-23%2Bat%2B5.05.28%2BPM%2B%25281%2529.jpeg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003EA letter to British Prime Minister Theresa May was also handed over to officials at\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #777777; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: justify;\"\u003E10 Downing Street,\u0026nbsp;London\u003Cspan style=\"background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003EAs United Kingdom will host the 25th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in April of 2018, t\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003Ehe letter urged to\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003Eset up a\u0026nbsp;\u003Cb\u003EMediation Panel\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003Ecomprising of commonwealth nations, which would engage with the concerned parties for a solution, that is consistent with the unfettered, and inalienable right of Kashmiris, to determine their political destiny.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003EThe letter was handed over by Zafar Khan, Mahmood Hussain, Sabir Gul and Tariq Sharif.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003EThe copy of the letter is below\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003E______________________________\u003Cwbr\u003E\u003C\/wbr\u003E_\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003ERt. Hon’ble Mrs Theresa May MP,\u003Cbr \/\u003EPrime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\u003Cbr \/\u003E10 Downing Street\u003Cbr \/\u003ELondon\u003Cbr \/\u003ESW1\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: right;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003EDate: 23 January 2018\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003EDear Prime Minister,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003ERe: Commonwealth nations must play their role, for an equitable solution of the Jammu Kashmir issue.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;As United Kingdom will host the 25th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in April of 2018, we take the opportunity to seek British support, on the unresolved political status of Jammu Kashmir, usually referred to as Kashmir. We believe Her Majesty’s Government is in a uniquely privileged position on the occasion, to extend its support for a meaningful engagement towards a just, and equitable solution of the longstanding Kashmir issue.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003ELast month, on the crucially important issue of reunification and Kashmir’s political status, we wrote to the Commonwealth Secretary-General Rt. Hon Baroness Scotland, and \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;reminded her that the Commonwealth nations, needed to take constructive steps towards a peaceful resolution of the Kashmir issue at the 25th CHOGM in London this year. We asked the Secretary-General to set up a\u0026nbsp;\u003Cb\u003EMediation Panel\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;which would engage with the concerned parties for a solution, that is consistent with the unfettered, and inalienable right of Kashmiris, to determine their political destiny. While Rt.Hon. Mr Boris Johnson MP, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs was sent a copy of the letter, on the important question of Kashmir’s future political status however, we felt it particularly germane, to engage directly with you .\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003EPrime Minister as you are aware, for seventy years now, India and Pakistan have utterly failed to address the all-important question of Kashmir’s future status. Both have fought full scale wars, and continue to confront each other across the ceasefire line, that forcibly divides Kashmiris under their de-facto rule. The ceasefire line in Kashmir also represents de-facto rather than de-jure border. Separation of Kashmiri people in general, and hundreds of thousands of families in particular across the ceasefire line, is enforced by armies of both India and Pakistan. At least a dozen substantial resolutions of the UNSC were passed on the issue, which were supported, and in some cases sponsored by Her Majesty’s past governments. Bilateral agreements, like the Tashkent and Shimla Accords, were signed and agreed upon by India and Pakistan. Thus far however, not even an iota of progress has been made towards a solution, while entrenched positions of both countries, add enormously to the suffering, misery, indignity of separation, and occupation for the Kashmiris.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003EPrime Minister India for her part has demonstrated an extreme intransigence over the years, and is fervently insistent that Kashmir is an internal affair of India. Despite staking claim to be given a permanent seat on the UNSC, India however, has completely reneged on all the commitments and solemn pledges, which she made at the United Nations. Today India’s de-jure position in Kashmir therefore, is that of an occupier. With a growing economic position however, India invests an enormous amount of energy in aggressive diplomacy, to make Kashmir a non-issue at the international level. India’s militarised violence over the years has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths of Kashmiris. India’s military in Kashmir, acts with impunity under laws such as the Armed Forces Special Powers Act-AFSPA. Thus a culture of impunity prevails in Kashmir, which makes India’s huge military deployment in the territory, virtually unaccountable for its violations of human rights.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003ESince 2014 in particular, Indian government has shown an unprecedented military and political aggression in its policies against the Kashmiris, and their pro freedom leadership. Indian government has declared war on the people, especially the young of Kashmir. Hundreds have been blinded in an unbridled, and indiscriminate use of force with weapons such as the pellets guns. More than150 people have been killed, and more than fifteen thousand injured since July of 2016. Indian military even stoops, to the reprehensible level, of using innocent Kashmiris, as human shields. India imposed longest ever curfew in the history of Kashmir for two months, to tire Kashmiris into submission, and discredit their political leaders.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003EThe Joint Resistance Leadership-JRL- comprising of Sayed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz-umar Farooq, and Mr Muhammad Yasin Malik, has been put under constant house arrests and incarcerated, as in Mr Malik’s case, through a \u0026nbsp;revolving door process of being incarcerated in police stations or in Srinagar Central Jail. The fundamental democratic rights of the leaders to free speech, free movement and engagement with the people, is denied to them. The harassment of leaders and activists, as part of an aggressive culture of impunity, and political victimisation, is rife. Many activists, and leaders like Shabir Shah for example, languish in Indian jails on politically motivated charges.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003EFurthermore the Indian government, quite insidiously prevents the JRL to interact, and engage with religious minorities. This is a deliberate attempt to engineer, not only a religious and communal cleavage within Kashmiri society, but to malign the political resistance, and its leaders as ‘sponsored’. This is one of the reasons, why India confines political leaders either in their homes or in custody. The Indian government with its aggressively sharp political rhetoric, encourages communal extremism of its ideological bed fellows, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-RSS- in Kashmir.\u0026nbsp; Equally as the progenitor of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the RSS exerts an incontrovertibly enormous grip, on the policies of the ruling BJP in India.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003EEven the mortal remains of leaders, whose executions can only be described as judicial murders, are not handed over to their families, despite repeated demands for their return by them. Mortal remains of both\u0026nbsp;\u003Cb\u003EMuhammad Maqbool Butt,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003Ewho was hanged in 1984\u003Cb\u003E, and Afzal Guru\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;who was hanged in 2013, remain buried in the grounds of India’s Tihar Jail. India shows immense pride in being the largest democracy in the world. In Kashmir however, India’s democracy represents nothing other than intolerance, and betrayal of peoples’ rights and aspirations.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003EPrime Minister India and Pakistan’s presence, and their confrontation across the divide in Kashmir, is a constant threat to peace in the region. As nuclear powers, each of them has the capacity to destroy the entire sub-continent, and beyond. Their armies pose a mortal danger to Kashmiris, and a much greater one, to their own combined populations of one and a half billion people. Indo-Pakistan rivalry is also a fundamental reason for lack of social, economic, and infrastructure development on both sides of the divide in Kashmir. In the dispute over the status of their country, Indo- Pakistan confrontation, has quite painfully rendered Kashmiris\u0026nbsp;\u003Cb\u003Einvisible\u003C\/b\u003E. Kashmiris’ cries of anguish and betrayal are not heard, as a consequence of the deafening reality of status-quo, enforced by India and Pakistan in their divided country.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003EOf course Kashmiris recognise the importance of peace, stability, and economic development in their society. Forced geographic separation, and social dislocation during the past seventy years however, has deprived them of a unified country. Their democratic rights on both sides of the ceasefire line, have been ignored and subverted.\u0026nbsp; They have endured violent oppression in the Indian held part of their country. And furthermore blatantly, and in a brazenly defiant manner, India has deprived them of the right to decide, a right which is inalienable, and God given.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003EPrime Minister, in 1982 an illustrious, and esteemed predecessor of yours, had to despatch thousands of young British soldiers to the South Atlantic, with the noble objective, to enforce, and assert, the fundamental human right of the Falkland Islanders to decide. Equally, as a genuine reflection of being the oldest democracy in the world, and without malice and recriminations, Her Majesty’s Government in 2014 of which, you were a prominent member, acceded to the demand by the Scottish nationalists, for the democratic right to decide, on Scotland’s union with the United Kingdom. It is quite ironic and sad \u0026nbsp;therefore, that a country which boasts of being the biggest ‘democracy’ \u0026nbsp;has allowed its military in Kashmir to kill, by all accounts around, a hundred thousand people, for making the same legitimate demand \u0026nbsp;to decide. Nevertheless, as mentioned above, India also demands the privilege of being made a permanent member of the UN Security Council, despite openly defying and disregarding its numerous resolutions on Kashmir.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003EPrime Minister, Kashmiris wish both India and Pakistan well. Both countries have huge potential, despite facing the perennial challenges of social and economic inequalities. Both India and Pakistan have combined population of over a billion and a half, and growing fast. While this presents enormous challenges, it also provides them with an immense energy for innovation and economic and technological development in their societies. It is in this context that Kashmiris across the ceasefire line have welcomed the China Pakistan Economic Corridor-CPEC-.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003EAs the mega CPEC project begins its journey to Pakistan’s port city of Gwadar, it first enters into Pakistan controlled, Kashmir region of Gilgit Baltistan. Kashmiris therefore, expect CPEC to, primarily benefit Gilgit Baltistan region, as well as others parts of Pakistan administered Kashmir. However, due to lack of democracy, and unrepresentative political structures in Gilgit Baltistan, and the territory of Azad Jammu Kashmir, the extent of real benefits to these regions, of Pakistan controlled Kashmir from CPEC, are a cause for serious concern. As a consequence, this concern has accentuated the demand for tangible democratisation and merger of both regions, including setting up of a democratically elected Joint Council for the regions, free of control from Islamabad. Thus far however, Pakistan government is not responding to these people centric demands.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003EPrime Minister, seventy years of forced division has not dimmed the burning desire of Kashmiris, to reunite and live as a free people. However, as long \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;as India and Pakistan are embroiled in, and control Kashmir, the desire remains but a distant dream. We therefore, urge you to use your deeply warm relations with both countries, and the Commonwealth, to extend British support for setting up of a Commonwealth’s\u0026nbsp;\u003Cb\u003Epanel of mediators\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003Eat the 25\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E\u0026nbsp;CHOGM in London, that would engage with concerned parties, for a peaceful resolution of the conflict over Kashmir’s political status.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003EIn conclusion we urge you to engage with Indian and Pakistani Prime Ministers directly, and persuade them to take the first step along with the Kashmiris, for a peaceful and lasting resolution. As Kashmiris, we desire a peaceful solution, but\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Edo not have partners\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;in our quest for peace. Kashmiris wish to make their country a\u0026nbsp;\u003Cb\u003Ebridge of peace and friendship\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;between India and Pakistan. Kashmiris wish for a peaceful and prosperous South Asia, and seek to see India and Pakistan develop neighbourly relationship similar to that, which exists, between the United States and Canada. But above all, Prime Minister, Kashmiris as a nation, must be allowed to decide. And for the sake of justice and democracy in Kashmir, India and Pakistan must be persuaded, to facilitate an unfettered decision by the Kashmiris- as this is the only way forward.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESincerely,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 17.8333px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EZafar Khan\u003Cbr \/\u003EHead of Diplomatic Bureau-\u003Cbr \/\u003EJammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF\u003Cbr \/\u003ELondon Secretariat,\u003Cbr \/\u003E119-123 Cannon Street Road,\u003Cbr \/\u003E(Basement North)\u003Cbr \/\u003ELondon\u003Cbr \/\u003EE1 2LX\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4571629923365918095\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/commonwealth-nations-must-play-their.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/4571629923365918095"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/4571629923365918095"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/commonwealth-nations-must-play-their.html","title":"Commonwealth nations must play their role, for an equitable solution of the Jammu Kashmir issue"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"J K L F"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17912188462951931200"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"19","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_RoCji4VwOvs\/Sg2SrdjusAI\/AAAAAAAAAKw\/t_nQV17OijM\/S220\/jklflag.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-k4qx1MOalfk\/Wmhu0HyzFRI\/AAAAAAAADv4\/dgLz2zSJutwXVhmF1ZBjTiowjwI_-4u-ACLcBGAs\/s72-c\/WhatsApp%2BImage%2B2018-01-23%2Bat%2B5.05.28%2BPM%2B%25281%2529.jpeg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025183395565326371.post-9145240012455780997"},"published":{"$t":"2018-01-15T05:35:00.001-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-01-15T05:35:22.401-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Diplomatic"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Press Release"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Statement by Diplomatic Bureau of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF-"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: inherit; line-height: 19.9733px;\"\u003EFor Press \u0026amp; Media\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: inherit; line-height: 19.9733px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: inherit; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003EStatement by Diplomatic Bureau of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF-\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: inherit; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 18.5467px;\"\u003ELondon-14 January 2018:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 18.5467px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;Meeting of the JKLF’s Diplomatic Bureau took place at its international secretariat in London, in which various aspects, and dimensions of the Kashmir issue were discussed, and decisions were made and appropriate actions were decided upon. A brief statement of some of the decisions taken, was issued here today, in which the participants \u0026nbsp;strongly affirmed, and reiterated that the JKLF leadership, will not compromise on the unfettered, and inalienable right to self-determination of 20 million people, across both sides of the ceasefire line. The Bureau also affirmed its strong resolve to extend full diplomatic voice, to the ongoing political struggle of the resistance leadership in Jammu Kashmir.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.5467px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.5467px;\"\u003EThe statement declared, that the ongoing conflict between India and Pakistan in Kashmir, presents an existential threat to South Asia, as both countries are nuclear powers. The statement called on the international community, to engage with the concerned parties for a peaceful resolution, of the 70 year long conflict. The Bureau’s statement further declared, that the people of Kashmir wish to make their country\u003Ci\u003E, a\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Ebridge\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Eof peace\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;in the sub-continent, and are willing to accommodate, Indian and Pakistani concerns over reunification and independence of Kashmir. The meeting however, noted that Kashmiris do not have partners in their endeavours, for a peaceful resolution of Kashmir’s political status.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.5467px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.5467px;\"\u003EThe statement in particular, condemned India’s intransigence on the Kashmir issue, and its unprecedented aggression, and militarised violence against peaceful dissent. And called on the United Nations Human Rights Council-UNHRC-, and other humanitarian organisations, to demand an unhindered access to Jammu Kashmir, for an impartial investigation of violations, and excesses against civilians.\u0026nbsp; In relation to death and destruction caused by exchanges of fire, across the ceasefire line between the Indian and Pakistani forces, the statement called on the UN, to strengthen the role of UNMOGIP across both sides of the ceasefire line, to protect civilian population. It was decided that the Bureau would apprise various organisations, and world leaders, including the UN Secretary General, on the gravity of the prevailing situation, both inside Indian held Kashmir, and across the ceasefire line.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.5467px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.5467px;\"\u003EIt was decided that in April of this year, the JKLF will organise public demonstration during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting-CHOGM- in London, and lobby for a meaningful role on the Kashmir issue, by the CHOGM. A conference and other diplomatic activities were proposed, and approved, to take place in Brussels, in The Hague and Geneva during the year, while similar, diplomatic and political activities, including a seminar, were proposed and approved, to take place in London during 2018.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.5467px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.5467px;\"\u003EThe meeting was chaired by Zafar Khan, and attended by Mr Mahmoud Hussain Secretary of the Bureau, Mr Tariq Sharif Bureau member, Mr Sabir Gul President JKLF UK Chapter, Mr Tanvir Chaudhry president JKLF Europe Chapter and Mr Tahseen Gilani General Secretary JKLF UK Chapter. Suggestions were received and approved from Bureau member Mr Rafiq Dar, and Sardar Nasim Iqbal, member diplomatic council.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.5467px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.5467px;\"\u003EEnd…..\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.5467px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.5467px;\"\u003EProf Zafar Khan\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.5467px;\"\u003EHead of Diplomatic Bureau\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.5467px;\"\u003EJammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF-\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 18.5467px;\"\u003E119-123 Cannon St. Rd\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 18.5467px;\"\u003ELondon\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 18.5467px;\"\u003EE1 2LX\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; 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"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front -UK has been invited by the All Parties Parliamentary Group on Kashmir to present evidence to its inquiry on human rights abuses in Jammu Kashmir.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe inquiry, first of its kind,\u0026nbsp; is to be\u0026nbsp; conducted in London Parliament on Thursday, 14th December, where JKLF's head of International Campaigns, Azmat A Khan, will present verbal and documentary evidence on human rights and socio-political abuses in both sides of\u0026nbsp; Kashmir.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEnds"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4373931111732757935\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2017\/12\/jklf-to-testify-at-uk-parliamentary.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/4373931111732757935"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/4373931111732757935"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2017\/12\/jklf-to-testify-at-uk-parliamentary.html","title":"JKLF to testify at UK parliamentary inquiry on Kashmir. "}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"J K L F"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17912188462951931200"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"19","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_RoCji4VwOvs\/Sg2SrdjusAI\/AAAAAAAAAKw\/t_nQV17OijM\/S220\/jklflag.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025183395565326371.post-5165744612367372587"},"published":{"$t":"2017-12-14T05:23:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2017-12-14T05:23:01.171-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Diplomatic"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Press Release"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"JKLF wrote to Secretary-General of Commonwealth urging to set up a mediation panel for a peaceful and lasting settlement of the long standing Kashmir issue"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003EJKLF Diplomatic Bureau sent a letter to Rt. Hon. Baroness Patricia Scotland of Asthal QC,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, serif;\"\u003ESecretary-General of Commonwealth urging her to set up a mediation panel from members of commonwealth states for a peaceful and lasting settlement of the long standing Kashmir issue.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003EContents of the letter is below\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003ERt. Hon. Baroness Patricia Scotland of Asthal QC\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003ESecretary-General of Commonwealth\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003EMarlborough House,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003EPall Mall London\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003ESW1Y 5HX\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E8 December 2017\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003EDear Baroness Scotland,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003ERe: The unresolved issue of Jammu Kashmir’s political Status and reunification\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003EWe take this opportunity to extend our heartfelt felicitations on your appointment at the 24th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting – CHOGM – as the sixth, and first female Secretary –General of the Commonwealth in 2016. We also offer our warm wishes for a successful forthcoming 25th CHOGM, in April 2018. We hope that at its 25th CHOGM, this family of nations will take positive and constructive steps, on the issue of Jammu Kashmir’s, (Kashmir) political status and reunification.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003EThe Commonwealth, as a family of nations has a common heritage, based primarily on being subjected to a lengthy colonial rule. It is a unique body of nations upon which the malevolence of imperial rule engendered a kindred spirit of solidarity, respect for freedom, democracy, and rule of law as a basis for its historic bonds. Subjugation without a doubt is a painful experience while freedom for the colonised peoples of the British Empire, was indeed a time of happiness and rejoicing.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;Excellency as you said on becoming the Secretary- General of the Commonwealth that “the Commonwealth shares a great deal. It has 33% of the world’s population. It has the capacity to bring together people of all religions. Concentrates on what joins us. It’s a real opportunity to invest and work together. If you work together with people respectfully, you can bring about change. Human rights and development go hand in hand.”\u0026nbsp; Indeed you alluded to some commendable aspects of the commonwealth to which we could add, the body’s dedication to peace in the world, liberty and equality. Undoubtedly many governments within this family of nations, endeavour to put these values and principles into practice for their citizens.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003EHowever, for some decolonisation, has left a legacy of conflict, separation, oppression, subjugation, and denial of fundamental rights, including the right of self-determination, and of nationhood. In this respect this family of 52 nations has failed to bring about the change that you so eloquently stated in the text quoted above.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003ECountries like India, who won their freedom through protracted struggles, adopted colonialist policies of their own with violent oppression, and utter disregard for human and political rights of nations and minorities under their de-facto control – as indeed is the case in Kashmir – whose inhabitants are being denied the right to exercise their free will on the political status of their country.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003EFor 20 million Kashmiris this has been their most poignant experience of neo-colonialism since 1947.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003ELives of ordinary people are blighted by militarised violence. They are denied their fundamental political and human rights, across the so-called cease-fire line or the Line of Control – LoC – that forcibly divides their country between India and Pakistan. There is no liberty, there is no respect for human rights, and there is no democracy in Kashmir. There is only Indian ‘democracy’ which has made Kashmir, the most heavily militarised occupied country in the world.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003EExcellency in our considered view, Commonwealth’s failure to uphold the inalienable right of twenty million Kashmiris, is a dereliction of international duty and moral responsibility. Because the denial of an unfettered political choice to Kashmiris, is in contravention of UN Charter and many of the world body’s resolutions that affirm their right to decide.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003EFor seventy years now India and Pakistan, two prominent Commonwealth countries are locked in conflict, over their claims and counter claims on the future status of Kashmir. Both countries have fought full scale wars several times since their independence. Daily exchanges of fire by the Indian and Pakistani armies along the five hundred miles long cease-fire line, makes it absolutely impossible for tens of thousands of civilians on both sides of the divide to lead a normal existence. Many lives are destroyed through death and destruction.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003EThus the Indo-Pakistan dimensions over Kashmir continue to cause immense suffering and miseries for people on both sides with nothing in sight by way of redress and justice for them. The entrenched positions of both countries have rendered the Kashmiris invisible, which is nothing less than a tragedy of epic proportions for a country that is as big as Britain in size.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003ELarge military presence in the territory in itself is a major impediment to peace in the region and the world. It is also a constant physical and psychological threat and danger to the population of Kashmir. India alone has more than half a million regular military personnel plus tens of thousands of paramilitary forces deployed in the Indian held part of the territory. Pakistan in its held part of the State has perhaps deployed up to a hundred thousand troops that confront the Indian forces across the cease-fire line. Both countries are nuclear powers and continue to spend large parts of their GDP on bolstering military strength to counter each other.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003EOver the past thirty years India’s militarised violence in the State has resulted in thousands of deaths. Jayanth Jacob and Aurangzeb Naqshbandi quoting Indian government’s figures, reported in the Hindustan Times on 25 September 2017 that 41,000 deaths took place in Indian held Jammu Kashmir over the past 27 years. The real figure of deaths however, may well be over a hundred thousand. Contrary to claims by the Indian authorities, an overwhelming majority of the dead and thousands of the disappeared are civilians. There are thousands of unmarked graves all over the Indian held part of the State without explanation.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003EExcellency in 2008 Kashmiris transformed their struggle from one of militancy to a non-violent one at the behest of the international community, with the hope that India would respect this historic transformation. India on the other hand unleashed her military might on the people of Kashmir, to crush their peaceful movement for a dignified future as a free nation. In 2008 Indian army killed 58 innocent civilians, and in 2009 40 civilians were killed, while in 2010 the Indian army killed 130 civilians. In the current peaceful resistance 150 civilians have been killed by Indian forces.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003EOver the past nine years around 25 thousand people have been injured, including those whose lives have changed for ever due to the severity their injuries. During 2016 around 5 thousand have been directly hit in their eyes with the use of pellet guns. Many of those hit have lost their eyesight completely.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003EIt is quite clear from the extremely aggressive militarised violence that the Indian government wants to beat the peaceful political resistance of the people into submission. Kashmiris are used as human shields. Targeted killing of civilians, fake encounters and torture are used as means of suppression. This oppression and inhuman by the military is openly defended by Indian authorities, including the military that war necessitates such methods.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003EExcellency Indian government is at war with the people of Kashmir, and expects them to surrender before the naked state oppression, and to be forced to give up the right to freedom. Despite undemocratic actions and machinations of the Indian authorities, pro freedom Kashmiri leadership is continuing the peaceful political resistance to strive for dignity, democracy, liberty, justice and freedom.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003EThe Joint Resistance Leadership – JRL – comprising of Mr Muhammad Yasin Malik, the head of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front,-JKLF- and the veteran Kashmiri leader Syed Ali Shah Gilani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, – APHC – are deprived of their fundamental democratic right of free speech, right of movement, and assembly by being subjected to house arrests, and incarceration.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003EExcellency the government of Pakistan should also be called upon to restrain itself from integrating the Gilgit- Baltistan - GB-region of the State as province of its federation. Under the UN Charter and over a dozen UN resolutions on the future status of Kashmir, India and Pakistan are duty bound to safeguard the territorial integrity and unity of the divided State. And also call upon the government of Pakistan to facilitate for a joint administrative set up of GB and Azad Jammu Kashmir with a democratically elected assembly through universal suffrage, and a democratic constitution for the joined up territories of the State under its control, as an interim solution until the final settlement of the Kashmir issue.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003EExcellency, India needs to be reminded that it too is subject to the UN Charter and her obligations to Kashmir’s future status. And India needs to be reminded about her obligations regarding the inherent and inalienable rights of 20 million Kashmiris to an unfettered political choice. India needs to be reminded that Kashmir is not an integral part of India nor an internal law and order issue. India needs to be reminded on the unbridled use of militarised violence against civilians, and political dissent by its forces. India needs to be reminded that massive human rights violations must stop, and those responsible must be brought to justice. India needs to be reminded that arrests and victimisation of activists for political expediency must not be allowed to continue in Kashmir. India needs to be reminded that the JRL must not be deprived of its democratic right of free speech, of assembly and the right to engage with the masses in all parts of the State. India needs to be reminded that it must allow the UNHCR access to Kashmir, to investigate excesses against civilians and political dissent committed by its forces.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003EExcellency in conclusion, irrespective of India’s importance and size within the Commonwealth or in the global sphere of influence, we urge the 25th CHOGM to adopt a constructive approach and actively engage with India and Pakistan for an equitable settlement of the Kashmir issue, which is based on the unfettered right of Kashmiris across both sides of the cease fire line.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003EExcellency Kashmir is not a territorial dispute between India and Pakistan but an international issue concerning the future status of a nation. Kashmiris want peace and prosperity for their country, and wish Kashmir to become a bridge of peace and amity between India and Pakistan, and not a perpetual bone of contention. In the interest of peace and prosperity for all we urge the 25th CHOGM to set up a mediation panel from the Commonwealth family of nations engage closely with India, Pakistan, the Kashmiris, and the U N Secretary General, for a peaceful settlement of the long standing Kashmir issue, which is acceptable to all the stakeholders in the conflict.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003EWith regards\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003EProf Zafar Khan\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003EDiplomatic Bureau –\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003EJammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF-\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003ELondon Secretariat\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E119-123 Cannon Street Road\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003E(Basement North)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003ELondon\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"m_-2302363552833631760gmail-MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"\u003EE12LX\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5165744612367372587\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2017\/12\/jklf-wrote-to-secretary-general-of.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/5165744612367372587"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/5165744612367372587"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2017\/12\/jklf-wrote-to-secretary-general-of.html","title":"JKLF wrote to Secretary-General of Commonwealth urging to set up a mediation panel for a peaceful and lasting settlement of the long standing Kashmir issue"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"J K L F"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17912188462951931200"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"19","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_RoCji4VwOvs\/Sg2SrdjusAI\/AAAAAAAAAKw\/t_nQV17OijM\/S220\/jklflag.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025183395565326371.post-2725050574526077465"},"published":{"$t":"2017-11-06T09:10:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2017-11-06T09:10:11.092-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Diplomatic"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Press Release"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"JKLF diplomatic Bureau meeting with the Bolivian Ambassador in London"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-uZyn-QlGn5w\/WgCXUzJ5-DI\/AAAAAAAAAUQ\/5Do_CNqM0joTp4DMvJ_pUFlDtMXlLpF3ACLcBGAs\/s1600\/JKLF%2527s%2Bdiplomatic%2BBureau%2Bdelegation%2BLondon.jpeg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"900\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-uZyn-QlGn5w\/WgCXUzJ5-DI\/AAAAAAAAAUQ\/5Do_CNqM0joTp4DMvJ_pUFlDtMXlLpF3ACLcBGAs\/s320\/JKLF%2527s%2Bdiplomatic%2BBureau%2Bdelegation%2BLondon.jpeg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 16.6667px; text-align: justify;\"\u003EA delegation of the JKLF's diplomatic Bureau comprising of Prof Zafar Khan,\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Mr Mahmoud Hussain and Mr Tariq Sharif met the Bolivian Ambassador His Excellency Roberto\u0026nbsp;Calzadilla\u0026nbsp;Sarmiento, to enlist Bolivia's understanding and support on the Kashmir issue. The delegation conveyed to the Ambassador, the historic and contemporary context of the unresolved Kashmir issue and explained that for peace, prosperity, justice and democracy it was imperative that 20 million people of Jammu Kashmir were allowed to, and supported in the exercise of their fundamental right to unfettered self-determination. In a one hour long meeting the JKLF delegation was cordially received, and thanked Ambassador Roberto\u0026nbsp;Calzadilla\u0026nbsp;Sarmiento\u0026nbsp;for his understanding and courtesy shown to the JKLF delegation.\u003C\/span\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2725050574526077465\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2017\/11\/jklf-diplomatic-bureau-meeting-with.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/2725050574526077465"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/2725050574526077465"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2017\/11\/jklf-diplomatic-bureau-meeting-with.html","title":"JKLF diplomatic Bureau meeting with the Bolivian Ambassador in London"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"JKLF"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/02254430121879903930"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_6ldKfiAPl3g\/SvMtSJ4IVAI\/AAAAAAAAAG4\/tDHk3eabTxY\/S220\/SLF+Sticker.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-uZyn-QlGn5w\/WgCXUzJ5-DI\/AAAAAAAAAUQ\/5Do_CNqM0joTp4DMvJ_pUFlDtMXlLpF3ACLcBGAs\/s72-c\/JKLF%2527s%2Bdiplomatic%2BBureau%2Bdelegation%2BLondon.jpeg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025183395565326371.post-8197023112874201788"},"published":{"$t":"2017-10-27T03:58:00.001-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2017-10-27T03:58:41.117-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Diplomatic"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Press Release"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Participants call on the British Government and the international community to play a constructive and meaningful role in resolving the Kashmir issue."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-S9M1G2wBQmg\/WfMRFwOfQQI\/AAAAAAAAAT0\/L0m_gwKNPwI4UtKyOGlz2i2iGvKSrE_0gCLcBGAs\/s1600\/WhatsApp%2BImage%2B2017-10-26%2Bat%2B16.07.39.jpeg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"900\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-S9M1G2wBQmg\/WfMRFwOfQQI\/AAAAAAAAAT0\/L0m_gwKNPwI4UtKyOGlz2i2iGvKSrE_0gCLcBGAs\/s320\/WhatsApp%2BImage%2B2017-10-26%2Bat%2B16.07.39.jpeg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ELondon 24 October 2017: Speakers at the seminar organised by Diplomatic Bureau of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF- in London’s Central Westminster Hall acknowledged, that for seventy years India and Pakistan have failed to resolve the issue of Jammu Kashmir’s future status. The participants agreed that dialogue and the recognition of the rights of 20 million people of Jammu Kashmir was the only wayward for a solution of the long standing Kashmir conflict.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EHead of the JKLF’s Diplomatic Bureau Professor Zafar Khan welcomed the participants and said that the fundamental right of 20 million people to freedom across the divided Jammu Kashmir, has been ignored and neglected by the world community. This is a grievous injustice inflicted upon a people who long for peace, dignity and reunification of their country. He said his party and leadership has always wished for the entire state to become a bridge of peace in South Asia, and Kashmiris want their country \u0026nbsp;in the region to be at peace with itself and in harmony across its borders. Referring to the message of his Party Chairman Mr Muhammad Yasin Malik, Zafar Khan said that the pain of a subjugated nation and its people, is clearly visible from Mr Malik’s message. He said that the Indo- Pakistan dimensions over the Kashmir issue however, have rendered the entire nation diplomatically invisible. And this is the injustice and indignity beyond any measure of morality that should stare the international community in the face.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EIn a message especially sent for the seminar from Srinagar, Mr Muhammed Yasin Malik the Chairman of the JKLF told the participants that “Jammu Kashmir is burning and its people are going through an unabated trauma and agony for many decades, and that twenty million Kashmiris are living in a life of total instability, brutal agony and distress”. He went on to impress upon the participants that “our land has been illegally occupied by military might and we are being denied our democratic right of self-determination which is guaranteed to us even by the United Nations”.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe JKLF Chairman reminded the participants that despite wars between India and Pakistan, over a dozen UNSC resolutions, and bilateral agreements, India and Pakistan have patently failed to make any progress on the all-important political status of Jammu Kashmir. He lamented at the “criminal silence” of the international community, and in particular pointed at the USA, the UK and the European Union who have turned a blind eye on the plight of Kashmiris, which encouraged India to deny the right of Kashmiris to freedom.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003EThe JKLF Chairman regretted that India unleashed an extreme militarised violent response to our decision to transform our armed struggle to a peaceful movement. India however \u0026nbsp;responded by unleashing an unprecedented militarised aggression against our people since 2008, which the Indian military and paramilitary forces continue with impunity resulting in deaths of hundreds and injuries inflicted on thousands as well as huge destruction of property and crops.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003EHe said “it is quite clear that India wants to silence us with its military might, and it intends to force us into submission with its huge military deployment in our country”. The JKLF Chairman however, reiterated that as a nation we will not surrender before the naked Indian military and state fascism. The JKLF Chairman conveyed to the participants that as part and parcel of human civilisation, and part of international community, we will never bow in submission and give up our birth right to freedom, and declar\u003C\/span\u003Eed that the resistance will continue for liberty freedom and dignity.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EAt the end of his message, referring to the great South African statesman, late Nelson Mandela who had said that the mode of resistance is determined, not by the oppressed but by the oppressors, the JKLF Chairman said that “our mode of resistance against the tyranny of Indian state oppression may vary from time to time”.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe writer and historian Ms Victoria Schofield, who has authored four books on Jammu Kashmir, said that she has been associated with Kashmir for over thirty years, and spoke of differing narratives on the issue of Kashmir which needed to be understood. She said India and Pakistan were not prepared to give up territories of Jammu Kashmir that each occupied. She said that the international community was supine over Kashmir in the face of Indian and Pakistani positions. Victoria Schofield emphasised that the period of 1947 to 1949 in Jammu Kashmir’s history was crucial and emphasised that if Pakistan forces had withdrawn in the territory they controlled in Kashmir, this would have not given India the excuse to refuse the UN proposed plebiscite on Kashmir.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe veteran Kashmiri origin member of the British upper House of Parliament Lord Nazir Ahmed said that all the options including, the option of an independent Jammu Kashmir was a matter for the 20 million people of Kashmir, as their basic right. He said our priority is Kashmir and its people and not India and Pakistan. He said war was not and has never been a solution, and the British Peer proposed an international conference for a peaceful solution of the issue. He said as basic stakeholders Kashmiris from across both sides of the ceasefire line must be enabled to participate in the proposed conference.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EWhile Mr Chris Leslie MP, the Chairman of All Party Parliamentary Group on Kashmir, said that it was important to take stock of the current situation in Kashmir. He said he would organise a meeting in December to engage with those with personal experiences and their testimonies on the situation. He pointed out that a calmer atmosphere and scenario needed to be espoused in the conflict. He said he would organise a delegation to visit both sides of Jammu Kashmir. Mr Chris Leslie feared that in view of trade possibilities with India, Brexit could prove detrimental in steering the British government towards an active position on the Kashmir issue.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EMr Gavin Shuker MP pointed out that the international community should not only be influenced about India and Pakistan in relation to Kashmir issue. Mr Shuker said that the conflict over Kashmir was an issue of justice for the people of Kashmir, and that Kashmiri voice must be heard as the voice of the Kashmiris was sacrosanct in this conflict. Mr Gavin Shuker MP said that he would like to see that all parts of Kashmir across the ceasefire line were accessible to the international press. He expressed the view that a rational cross party parliamentary approach in the British Parliament on Kashmir was essential.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EDr Dibyesh Anand, Professor of international politics at the University of Westminster in London, argued in his presentation that even those on the political left of the Indian polity do not acknowledge and recognise the right of Kashmiris to exist as a free and independent nation. Professor Anand argued that Kashmiris’ resistance to the Indian state as a result, is met with full force of the Indian state. He said that it was important to mobilise against human rights violations in Jammu Kashmir alongside the struggle for the right of self-determination, as a means to engage with people not only in India but elsewhere on the Kashmir issue. He said Indian state’s attempts to dialogue with Kashmiris is always based on the premise that Kashmir is an integral part of India. And the appointment of India’s current interlocutor in Kashmir according to Prof Anand, is an example of this Indian approach or the mind-set. He said it is the mandarins in Delhi who make the policy on Kashmir. He argued that Pakistani state would have a similar aggressive attitude if Kashmiris were agitating as forcefully against its rule as they are in Indian administered Kashmir. However Professor Anand pointed out that Pakistan could let Azad Jammu Kashmir become azad (free) and turn the region into a model of positive political development with a democratic constitution. Professor Anand pointed out that azadi does not mean only political freedom, but it should mean justice for all. He pointed out that he supported the JKLF’s position on the rights of minorities and diverse opinions in Jammu Kashmir.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EKashmiri origin British Peer Lord Qurban Hussain argued that Pakistan recognises Kashmir as a dispute, whereas India considers it as its internal affair. He said that India is not willing to listen on Kashmir. Lord Qurban Hussain pointed out that Kashmiris have not given up on their right to freedom. He said that there can be no peace without a resolution of the Kashmir issue, and said that there should be simultaneous withdrawal of Indian and Pakistani military from Kashmir.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EMr Graham Wilson Chairman of Nations without States in his address argued that a scientific approach needs to be adopted on resistance and against oppression. He said that the UN in Kashmir has failed because of the US influence. He pointed out that the occupation of Kashmir should be resisted through people’s power. He said if Scotland can be allowed by the UK to have a referendum on independence, the people of Jammu Kashmir should be allowed to exercise their right to self-determination too.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EMr Ershad Malik Europe Spokesman for the Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Party said that there is no peace in Kashmir, and only the Kashmiris feel the pain of the oppression. He reminded the participants that Kashmiris gave up the gun but there has not been a positive response to the people. He pointed out that as a parent organisation of the freedom struggle, JKLF and the people of Kashmir should be prepared for a long struggle.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EAt the end of formal presentations members of the JKLF and other invited guest joined in the discussion on various aspects of the Kashmir issue that were raised in the seminar. Members of JKLF’s diplomatic council Mr Tanvir Chaudhry ( President Europe Zone) from Finland, Sardar Nasim Iqbal from Belgium, Mr Sabir Gul ( President UK zone ) and Syed Tehsin Gilani ( Gen Sec of UK zone), and members of JKLF’s Diplomatic Bureau Mr Mahmoud Hussain, Mr Tariq Sharif, as well as the veteran JKLF leader Mr Latif Malik took part in the discussion. Mahmoud Faiz, Sanawar Hussain, Talat Butt from JKTV and representative of the Latvian Embassy, a number of parliamentary interns and students also attended the seminar.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;Following resolutions were proposed and adopted by the participants\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E1…That the way forward for a peaceful and just solution of the long standing Kashmir issue can only be found through a meaningful dialogue between India, Pakistan and the Kashmiris; and that the international community, and in particular the United Kingdom, the USA, the European Union, and the UNSC must endeavour to facilitate, for a conducive diplomatic environment so that a meaningful dialogue process for a peaceful solution can begin.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E2… In view of the increased and almost continuous exchanges of fire across the ceasefire-line in Jammu Kashmir between the Indian and Pakistani forces, and the heavy loss of life and property as well as general disruption caused to the daily routines of inhabitants on both sides of the ceasefire line, this meeting calls upon the governments of India and Pakistan to abide by the ceasefire agreement of 2003 between them with immediate effect. And calls upon the UNSC to empower the UNMGIP to enforce the ceasefire and report to the UNSC violations across the ceasefire-line.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E3… The meeting calls upon the governments of India and Pakistan to speed up the process in documentation, and safeguard the safety and ensure the visits of separated families on both Indian and Pakistani held areas of the state of Jammu Kashmir to meet with greater frequency, safety and dignity.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe meeting calls upon the UNSC and especially the UK and the US to impress upon India and Pakistan to address the matter of family reunions in Kashmir on apriority humanitarian basis.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EEND:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #212121;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EMahmoud Hussain\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EFor and on behalf of the Diplomatic Bureau\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EJammu Kashmir Liberation Front\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ELondon Secretariat\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E119-123Cannon Street Road, Basement North\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ELondon E1 2LX\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; 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color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-uhFrauhxJog\/SrthTePAifI\/AAAAAAAAAz4\/6KrzSb7WVTcEcclEVuZkMlt87S73uwQbwCPcBGAYYCw\/s1600\/zafar-khan.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"377\" data-original-width=\"250\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-uhFrauhxJog\/SrthTePAifI\/AAAAAAAAAz4\/6KrzSb7WVTcEcclEVuZkMlt87S73uwQbwCPcBGAYYCw\/s320\/zafar-khan.jpg\" width=\"212\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 16.96px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ELondon-17 July 2017:\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003EJammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF- has called on the world community to play its role and, intercede for an equitable and peaceful solution of the Kashmir issue. In a letter to UN member states, JKLF’s head of Diplomatic Bureau Prof Zafar Khan, urged the governments of these states to engage constructively with India, Pakistan, and the pro freedom leadership in Kashmir, for a peaceful resolution of the conflict over Kashmir’s future status.\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 16.96px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;The letter addressed to respective governments through their diplomatic missions in London, stated that Kashmir issue is quite erroneously perceived by vested interests, as a territorial dispute between India and Pakistan. Jammu Kashmir’s future status is fundamentally, linked with the unfettered right to self-determination of 20 million people across both sides of the cease-fire line (or the Line of Control-LoC) that forcibly divides the region, and its people between India and Pakistan.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 16.96px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe letter called upon the UN member states to exert, and assert their powerful voice for a just resolution of the conflict, based on the legitimate and internationally recognised rights of the Kashmiris. And exhorted these countries to engage within the international fora, such as the United Nations General assembly, the United Nations Human Rights Council-UNHRC, with both India and Pakistan as well as multilateral organisations, for the noble objective of a peaceful and equitable solution of the issue.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 16.96px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;In the \u0026nbsp;letter the JKLF strongly reiterated its basic position that the issue of Kashmir’s future status \u0026nbsp;must not be seen within the context of a dispute between India and Pakistan, as Indo-Pak dimensions over the issue since 1947, have rendered the most affected and aggrieved party- the people of Jammu Kashmir- politically and diplomatically invisible within the conflict.\u0026nbsp; The letter added that Kashmiris’ quest for freedom in their own country, has also been inflicted a grievous harm through aggressive diplomacy and economic influence of India, and double standards of powers with vested interests.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 16.96px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EIn the letter the JKLF went on to add that irrespective of entrenched Indo-Pak positions on the status and reunification of Kashmir, the solution of the issue remains vested in the democratic will of Jammu Kashmir’s 20 million people. And further added that the locus\u003Ci\u003E-\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;standai of the people, as the central party in the issue, is not only recognised by the United Nations, but has also been accepted by both India and Pakistan.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 16.96px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe JKLF in its letter included one such example of India’s recognition on the status of Kashmir and, the rights of its people, when on 1\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E\u0026nbsp;January 1948 at the UNSC… India’s representative declared: \u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E“that the question of Kashmir’s future status vis-a vis its neighbours and the world at large, and the question on whether Kashmir should withdraw from her accession to India, and either accede to Pakistan or remain independent with a right to claim admission as a member of the United Nations, all this we have recognised to be a matter for unfettered decision by the people of Kashmir after normal life is restored to them”\u0026nbsp;\u003Cb\u003EUNSC document -Agenda 227.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 16.96px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe JKLF reminded these governments that successive Indian leaders, have reneged on their country’s solemn pledges on Kashmir. The current government in Delhi refuses even to recognise that a popular struggle for justice, democracy and freedom exists, in Jammu Kashmir. Modi government, stated the letter, has spared no effort to malign a peaceful and popular political struggle for freedom. The letter \u0026nbsp;added that in reality, Kashmiris on both sides of the Cease-fire line seek a peaceful solution and wish to see their country become\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Ea\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Ebridge of peace between India and Pakistan rather than remain a perpetual bone of contention. Kashmiris however, do not have partners in their quest for a negotiated solution on the status of their country.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 16.96px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EIn its letter the JKLF reminded these countries that Kashmir is one of the most militarised regions of the world. India alone has around 700,000 troops deployed in the territory that it occupies. More than 100,000- civilians have perished at the hands of Indian forces. Indian military operates under an umbrella of laws that provide it with complete impunity. Over the past year alone, Indian army has killed over a hundred civilians, while thousands have been wounded. Use of pellet guns has either totally or partially blinded many hundreds. Innocent and peaceful civilians are used as human shields.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 16.96px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe letter added that the BJP government of Prime Minister Modi has given the Indian army and the Home Minister full authority to crush political dissent in Kashmir within two months.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 16.96px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe letter informed these governments that India and Pakistan have heavy deployment of their forces across the cease-fire line since 1947. As a consequence civilians cannot lead a normal life along the ceasefire line because of danger to their life and livelihood from the opposing forces. Both countries are nuclear powers, and have fought three full scale wars since 1947. Their aggressive deployment creates an environment full of incalculable and catastrophic consequences. A nuclear flare up in the sub-continent could kill as many as two billion people, and devastate the entire region with a nuclear winter that could last for many generations to come.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 16.96px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe letter reminded these countries about the agony endured by separated families who are unable to share joy and grief with loved ones since 1947. Those lucky enough to obtain visas in an intolerable situation, navigate an unbearable bureaucratic security environment that militates against these families.\u0026nbsp; The JKLF letter added that such a situation would not be tolerated in a civilised society. This is exactly why the ‘Iron Curtain’ collapsed in the west.\u0026nbsp; The JKLF in its letter added that Kashmiris seek the same through peaceful means, and want the\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; forcibly imposed border in Jammu Kashmir to end.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 16.96px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe letter reminded governments of these countries that the JKLF leadership is committed to turning Kashmir from a bone of contention to a bridge of peace in South Asia as a considered policy, and a long standing national objective, and stated that a free, sovereign and reunified Jammu Kashmir will truly become a bridge that is vital for peace in the region.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 16.96px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 16.96px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 16.96px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EMahmoud Hussain\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 16.96px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EActing Secretary to the Diplomatic Bureau\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 16.96px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EJammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 16.96px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ELondon Secretariat:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 16.96px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E119-123 Cannon Street Road\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 16.96px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ENorth Basement\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; 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color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ELondon 29 June 2017:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-n-KErmEJbVI\/WV5hgLgSojI\/AAAAAAAADuw\/IK8lGnt5ouwhkHBi64RNDt4buad-TrGYACLcBGAs\/s1600\/WhatsApp%2BImage%2B2017-06-29%2Bat%2B15.15.27%2B%25281%2529.jpeg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1600\" data-original-width=\"900\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-n-KErmEJbVI\/WV5hgLgSojI\/AAAAAAAADuw\/IK8lGnt5ouwhkHBi64RNDt4buad-TrGYACLcBGAs\/s320\/WhatsApp%2BImage%2B2017-06-29%2Bat%2B15.15.27%2B%25281%2529.jpeg\" width=\"180\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EA delegation of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front’s Diplomatic Bureau, met with officials of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office-FCO- The delegation led by the head of the \u0026nbsp;Bureau Prof Zafar Khan, included JKLF’s senior leaders \u0026nbsp;Bureau members, Mr Mahmoud Hussain, Mr Tariq Sharif, and General Secretary of JKLF’s British Chapter Sayed Tehsin Gilani.\u0026nbsp; The two hour long meeting involved detailed discussion around the current situation in Indian held Jammu Kashmir, and in particular the ever growing repressive aggression unleashed by the Indian state, and its armed forces against the peaceful dissent of Kashmiri people.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 13.696px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;Each of the following points were fully analysed by the head of the delegation who asked the British government to adopt a people centric approach to the Kashmir issue and support the unfettered right of 20 million people of Jammu Kashmir to freedom.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 13.696px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E-------------------\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 13.696px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe following are the points that were fully discussed and explained at the meeting with the British FCO.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EHistoric context of the Kashmir issue- (January 1948)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EKashmir is recognised by the United Nations as an issue whose political status is yet to be determined by its inhabitants on both sides of the cease-fire line (LoC). India and its leadership is in denial of this historic fact. India denies the existence of the Kashmir issue, and claims it to be an integral part of India. India denies the existence of over a dozen UN resolutions on the issue. India refuses to ratify article 1 of the UN’s International Covenant on Civil and political rights.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EArticle 1of the ICCPR states that: “All peoples have right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status, and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development”. People of Kashmir feel aggrieved that the United Kingdom supports India’s demand for a permanent seat on the UNSC.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003EIndian attitude toward Kashmiri dissent is violent and aggressive:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003EPM Modi has given the Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh and the Indian army Chief of staff General Bipin Rawat a free hand, to end the Kashmiri dissent in two months. India’s COAS considers hundreds of thousands of Kashmiri dissenters as ‘militants’ and has expressed his desire to use military methods against their peaceful resistance, and dissent against his military’s violence.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ERepression by Indian state has become systematic. India is at war with the people of Kashmir. There are hundreds of half widows. There are many thousands of orphans. Thousands of mass graves. There are hundreds of blind and half blind children as a consequence of the use of pellet guns.\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;Indian state wages an undeclared war on the youth of Kashmir.\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThere is a mass involvement of the people in the movement for freedom. Fourth generation of the Kashmiris is now involved in the struggle for a right to decide the nation’s destiny. India wants to defeat the Kashmiri nation by force. Kashmir is the most militarised country in the world. India has by all accounts well in excess of 700,000 military and paramilitary forces who have a free hand to act in Kashmir. It seems India wants to subdue the will of Kashmir and its people, through the use of brute and unbridle military power.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EHarassment of ordinary people through search operations has reached new heights. Demonstrators’ homes are raided at night. Young people in particular are taken away. Kashmiris are being used as human shields by the Indian army. Many recent reports have testified on the excesses and violations committed against the civilians by the Indian state and its forces in Jammu Kashmir.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EAmong these include, amnesty International 2017, 2015, Human Rights Watch 2016, and others including the State Dept. 2015, International Peoples’ Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Kashmir 2015 and the Association of Parents of the Disappeared Persons (APDP) and many other international- including British- press and \u0026nbsp;media organisations, \u0026nbsp;regularly report on excesses committed \u0026nbsp;by Indian forces in Kashmir. We expect therefore, that British authorities are informed about India’s unprecedented aggressive attitude towards Kashmiris’ peaceful resistance and their legitimate dissent.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003EIndian Democracy?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;India is famed for being world’s largest democracy. Nothing like democracy exists in Indian held Jammu Kashmir.\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003EPolitical leadership is denied its fundamental right to free speech and assembly\u003Cb\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003ECollective resistance\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003ELeaders, are subjected to house arrests, and are either lodged in police custody, or as in the case of Mr Yasin Malik, regularly incarcerated at Srinagar Central Jail. Mr Malik was not allowed to offer even Eid prayers on 26 of June. India deliberately stifles a peaceful political movement by not allowing the leadership free expression and movement to engage with the public.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EIndia is embarked upon destroying a popular struggle which was transformed from militancy to a political movement as part of a considered policy by our leadership in the 1990s. Our friends in Britain, and elsewhere had also encouraged us to do so. We expect our British friends therefore, to ensure that Indian repression in the territory does not exceed India’s historic international responsibility in Jammu Kashmir- namely assisting the United Nations- during holding of a plebiscite\/ referendum, to decide on the political status of Jammu Kashmir. Indian army therefore, represents a colonial power in Jammu Kashmir today and has surpassed in its oppression of the Kashmiris by any colonial power in history.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe inability and unwillingness of the Modi government to recognise, and accept the legitimate Kashmiri right to political dissent, is inevitably causing frustration with in the youth of Kashmir today. We do not consider it in our interest that our peaceful, and indigenous political movement should once again become a militant one. Indian ‘democracy’ however, exacerbates the situation by giving its forces a licence to kill over and above the existing impunity of action that they already exercise in Jammu Kashmir.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003EIndian media:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003EThe Indian media is so biased, one sided and partisan, that like the Indian government and the military, it also sees in every Kashmiri dissenter, stone pelter, political activist, and resistant leader, a Pakistani.\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003EThis is a gravest injustice to a nation that has continuously striven to determine its destiny for almost 70 years.\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003EThe Indian media fails to see that over a hundred thousand civilians have been killed by India’s armed forces since 1988, and the disappeared, the half widows, the orphans, the maimed and the \u0026nbsp;blinded by India’s military forces.\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003EFact Finding:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003EIndia has refused access to the U N Human Rights Council to visit Indian held Kashmir, and see for itself the\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;excesses committed against peaceful protesters. Needless. We would expect the British government to support such a fact finding visit of the UNHRC and other humanitarian organisations.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003EWe would like to ask HMG to send a fact finding delegation of its own to visit both sides of the cease-fire line (LoC), to determine voracity of our very serious concerns.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003ECease-fire line (Line of Control-LoC):\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003ERegular incidents, and violations, across the cease-fire line (LoC) take place almost daily between the Indian and Pakistani armies that are deployed eye-ball to eye-ball across hundreds of miles long de-facto line of control. Thousands of Kashmiris along both sides of the cease-fire line have a fundamental right to safety and life. Dozens of fatalities, hundreds of injuries and immense losses to livestock and property take place regularly.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe cease fire line should have no detrimental impact on the free movement of people on both Indian and Pakistani controlled sides of Jammu Kashmir under UN resolution of 21 April 1948. People of Jammu Kashmir can assert this right of movement should they wish to do so and the Indian state has no legal international basis to stop them.\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EWe expect that British High Commissions in New Delhi and Islamabad respectively keep abreast of the dire and repressive situation, not only inside Indian held Kashmir but also of the suffering of civilian population along the cease-fire line (LoC) that forcibly divides 20 million people of Jammu Kashmir.\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EZafar Khan\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EHead of Diplomatic Bureau\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EJammu Kashmir Liberation Front.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"height: 0px; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Ex\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"height: 0px; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Ex\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/feeds\/126489805082721154\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2017\/06\/jklf-diplomatic-committee-meeting-with.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/126489805082721154"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/126489805082721154"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2017\/06\/jklf-diplomatic-committee-meeting-with.html","title":"JKLF Diplomatic Committee  Meeting with British Foreign and Commonwealth Office-FCO"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"J K L F"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17912188462951931200"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"19","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_RoCji4VwOvs\/Sg2SrdjusAI\/AAAAAAAAAKw\/t_nQV17OijM\/S220\/jklflag.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-n-KErmEJbVI\/WV5hgLgSojI\/AAAAAAAADuw\/IK8lGnt5ouwhkHBi64RNDt4buad-TrGYACLcBGAs\/s72-c\/WhatsApp%2BImage%2B2017-06-29%2Bat%2B15.15.27%2B%25281%2529.jpeg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"},"georss$featurename":{"$t":"London, UK"},"georss$point":{"$t":"51.5073509 -0.12775829999998223"},"georss$box":{"$t":"51.1912379 -0.77320529999998222 51.8234639 0.51768870000001777"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025183395565326371.post-7066482658196242846"},"published":{"$t":"2016-06-02T09:18:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-06-02T09:18:37.505-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Diplomatic"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Statement by the Diplomatic Bureau of JKLF in London"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EStatement by the Diplomatic Bureau of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front:\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EIssued in London at JKLF’s International Secretariat.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003ELondon- 2 June 2016: \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EThe focus of this statement is on the following two main points: \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E(a) the conspiracy to engineer demographic change in the valley of Kashmir under the guise of Pandit resettlement and: \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E(b) the threat to Jammu Muslims from communalist forces of the BJP\/RSS nexus.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-1NiqnzCMmXY\/V1BbCdJeUMI\/AAAAAAAADqk\/r9PEs1mg7g04kzBOA5mT3fpo_PhKH_pYwCLcB\/s1600\/jklf%2Bdiplomatic%2Bcommittee%2B.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-1NiqnzCMmXY\/V1BbCdJeUMI\/AAAAAAAADqk\/r9PEs1mg7g04kzBOA5mT3fpo_PhKH_pYwCLcB\/s320\/jklf%2Bdiplomatic%2Bcommittee%2B.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EIndian government’s policy to construct huge separate townships on the West Bank model, (Israeli style Settlements), is a deliberate attempt to create social, political and demographic dislocation of Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EUnder the guise of\u0026nbsp; Pandit resettlement, Indian government has embarked on construction of separate enclaves, including sainak or the ex-service men colonies in the Valley, despite the fact that, upon retirement service personnel return to their family homes.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EIt has decided to give land to non-Kashmiri industrialists, and accommodate homeless people in the valley from outside Jammu Kashmir, especially since there is a shortage of land in the Valley of Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EKashmiris have strongly reacted to this nefarious attempt by the Indian state, and its local BJP\/PDP quislings, to divide the population on ethnic and religious lines, and to create a perpetual state of uncertainly within Jammu Kashmir, and especially in the Valley.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EJKLF Chairman Mr Yasin Malik, and other pro freedom and pro people leaders, have taken the matter of Indian policy, to build separate colonies, very seriously.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EOver the recent months, JKLF Chairman has mobilised, political and civic opinion across all sections of Jammu Kashmiri society to mount an effective resistance to Indian policy through a united Front. Notably he met with Syed Ali Gilani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq among many others.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003ESince 25 May however, Mr Yasin Malik has been incarcerated, initially under Police custody, and since 29 May in Srinagar central jail.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EThis is a deliberate attempt by the Indian state and its local quislings, to prevent JKLF’s Chairman from further contacts with the public and opinion makers in Jammu Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EMr Yasin Malik’s arrest and incarceration therefore exposes the charade of ‘Indian democracy’ in Jammu Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003ELeaders of the All Parties Huriyat Conference-APHC- Mirwaiz Molvi Umar Farooq APHC (M) and Syed Ali Shah Gilani APHC (G), and vice Chairman of the JKLF Mr Shaukat Bakhshi have been put under house arrest since 25 May; while JKLF zonal president Noor Muhammad Kalwal and organiser Bashir Kashmiri have evaded arrest as both have gone underground.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EMr Yasin Malik and the APHC leaders, Syed Ali Shah Gilani (G) and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq (M), have jointly called Friday 3 May as a day of protest, and called on the population to hoist and wave black flags throughout the Valley, against the oppression of the Indian state and its quislings in Jammu Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EMr Yasin Malik in a message from Srinagar central jail has said that it was a life and death situation for Kashmiris and that it was important to mount a united front against the Indian machinations against the people of Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EIt must be remembered that over ten thousand Pandits live and engage in business throughout the valley of Kashmir without fear, including having businesses in the Lal Chawk area of Srinagar itself in complete safety.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EThere is therefore, no justification for India to construct separate Colonies for Pandits or any other section of society in the Valley or any other part of Jammu Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EWe do however demand, that Indian government gives necessary financial support (one crore rupees for each family) for Pandit families, to buy property wherever they wish in the Valley. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EAlso\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E in view of deepening communalisation of Jammu Kashmir society by the BJP, we are extremely concerned for the safety of Muslim population in Jammu. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EIn this regard we consider the words of BJP minister Lal Singh deeply offensive, and full of intimidation to Muslims of Jammu, when he reminded them of the 1947 massacres, in which at least three hundred thousand (3 Lakh) Muslim residents were massacred, in what can only be described as deliberate and calculated actions of extremists, to eliminate Muslim presence in Jammu region of the state.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003ELal Singh conveyed his threat when a delegation of Jammu Muslims met him on 20 May with their grievances. Instead of redressing their complaints, he reminded them of what happened to their kith and kin in 1947.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EIt is sad to note that people like Lal Singh, inspired by communalist ideology of the RSS in 1947, were responsible for the massacres, and of forcing more than half a million Muslims to flee for safety, in Azad Kashmir and the Punjab in Pakistan.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EIn view of Lal Singh’s threat to Muslims of Jammu with dire consequences, and considering the violent nexus and ideology of the RSS and the BJP, we call upon the international community to take these threats against Muslims in Jammu seriously.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EIt is our firm view therefore that construction of vast colonies in the valley, is an attempt by the Indian government, under the guise of Pandit resettlement, to change \u003Ci\u003Edemographic character, and create social dislocation of not only the Valley, but whole of Jammu Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EFurthermore it is an attempt to create facts on the ground by changing the majority into minority in Indian Held Jammu Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EIt is an attempt by the Indian state to bring about fragmentation of the Valley of Kashmir by erecting an iron curtain through construction of these huge townships.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EWe firmly reiterate our strong resolve to resist this diabolical Indian policy of building huge militarised fortresses that would be similar to the West Bank Settlements by Israel in Palestine, under the guise of Pandit resettlement.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EWe will take appropriate and effective diplomatic and political actions to counter Indian policy by supporting the anti-status quo and pro- people leadership in Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EWe demand that Indian authorities and their local quislings immediately release Mr Yasin Malik from arbitrary incarceration as well as Huriyat and JKLF leaders from house arrests.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EWe call upon the international community to take note of these undemocratic and oppressive methods of the Indian state and its agents in Jammu Kashmir against peaceful and legitimate political rights and activities of the pro- people and anti-status quo Kashmiri leadership.\u003Ci\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EAs part of our concerted diplomatic and political actions, steps will be taken to organise public demonstrations against Indian Embassies and Diplomatic Missions in Europe, UK, the United States, and in Pakistan and Azad Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EIn his message from Srinagar Central Jail, Mr Yasin Malik expressed his delight over the successful operation of Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, and extended solidarity with Prime Minister Sharif’s family and prayed for his early recovery.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EMr Malik also expressed his heartfelt grief and sorrow over the sad demise of Malik Muhammad Shafi, a founding member of the JKLF and right hand man of JKLF supreme head jenab Amanullah Khan marhoom, and expressed his condolences with the family and prayed for Malik Shafi \u0026nbsp;sahib’s heavenly abode……\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EProf Zafar Khan\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EHead of Diplomatic Bureau\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; 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Honourable Mr Philip Hammond\u003Cbr \/\u003ESecretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs\u003Cbr \/\u003EC\/OP the Foreign \u0026amp; Commonwealth Office South Asian Department.\u003Cbr \/\u003EKing Charles Street London SW1A 2AH\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E7 April 2016\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EDear Secretary of State,\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ESub- The right of 20 million Kashmiris to freedom, democracy and reunification of their forcibly divided country.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EDuring your recent visit to Pakistan, and contrary to decades old British policy on the unresolved Jammu Kashmir issue, you advised Pakistan Government, not to include the question of Kashmir’s future status as part of its dialogue with India.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ESecretary of State, we find your advice unprecedented and inconsistent, especially since the United Kingdom is far more cognisant and privy to the historic context of the conflict over Kashmir, and has traditionally recognised its resolution as being central for lasting peace in South Asia.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe advice therefore has been received as a great disappointment within the million strong British Kashmiri diaspora, as well as a cause of serious concern across both sides of the Line of Control-LoC- that divides Kashmir, and forcibly separates its 20 million people between India and Pakistan.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EKashmiri leadership in particular, has interpreted this advice as a reversal of British policy due to the UK’s changed priorities in South Asia. Kashmiris have always expected Britain to support their legitimate, just and internationally recognised rights and aspirations as part of a process towards a peaceful resolution of the issue.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EEspecially as in our considered view, Britain has a key role in persuading India and Pakistan, to seek a solution of the issue, by recognising and accommodating, the \u003Ci\u003Elocus standai\u003C\/i\u003E in the conflict, of 20 million Kashmiris as the arbiters over Jammu Kashmir’s reunification and political status.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EIt is not only unfortunate but lamentable that India of today, contrary to its commitments before the international community and to the people of Jammu Kashmir, does not even recognise the existence of Kashmir issue or Kashmiri dimension- a dimension- that encompasses aspirations and fundamental rights that have yet to be exercised over the political status of forcibly divided Jammu Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EWhat must also be questioned and seriously addressed is the huge military deployment of forces by both India and Pakistan in the territory from north to south, where both armies aggressively confront each other eye-ball to eye-ball across the LoC.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ESecretary of State this 700 mile long LoC which, as far as the basic right of movement is concerned does not and should not apply to inhabitants on either side of the forced divide within International law and UN resolutions, is nevertheless a living hell for tens of thousands of Kashmiris who reside alongside it.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EDuring frequent flare ups between both armies along the length of the LoC hundreds of villages are caught in the cross fire as both armies are deployed either in or close to the populated areas.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EEqually Indian military and paramilitary forces are heavily deployed in the rural and urban areas of Indian occupied parts of Jammu Kashmir. This Indian military presence is extremely intimidating and disruptive of the daily lives of ordinary people- many are killed daily with no provocation against the military.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EIndian army operates under cover of laws such as the Armed Forces Special Powers Act-AFSPA- that give the Indian forces in Jammu Kashmir, the impunity and immunity to perpetrate acts of violence on a daily basis against civilians that result in deaths of innocent men, women, young and old alike. Many of the basic rights of Kashmiri people are violated daily by this blanket cover of immunity that the Indian military apparatus has enjoyed in Indian held Jammu Kashmir over the past 28 years. Over a hundred thousand have been killed by the Indian military and paramilitary forces, around 8,000 are missing while over 7,000 unmarked graves are found throughout Indian held Jammu Kashmir. Women’s dignity is violated including rapes. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EPro freedom and reunification leadership in Indian held Jammu Kashmir is being denied its basic right of movement, assembly and of free speech. In a country that boasts of being the largest democracy in the world, this denial is a travesty of these fundamental rights when peaceful assembly and movement of legitimate leaders is not allowed to take place.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EOver the past one year alone for example, Chairman of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front- JKLF- Mr Muhammad Yasin Malik, has been denied right to assembly and free speech dozens of times. He has been prevented from engagement with people on many occasions through arrests, police and judicial custody and all too often put under house arrests. Mr Malik is also denied the right to a passport. As a result he is unable to visit and see his wife and child who reside in Pakistan. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ESecretary of State, on both sides of the LoC, political parties that seek independence of Jammu Kashmir, are denied the right to participate in the political process, as candidates are required to declare their allegiance to India and Pakistan respectively. This is not only an undemocratic condition imposed on the candidates but also a denial of fundamental right to choice. As a result millions of people in both Azad Jammu Kashmir -AJK- and in Indian held Jammu Kashmir are disenfranchised by this undemocratic condition.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EWe would also like to draw your attention to the issue of Gilgit Baltistan which, the previous Peoples Party Government declared as a de-facto province of Pakistan and the current government of Mr Nawaz Sharif attempted to constitutionally formalise it as such. The process was halted due to concerted opposition from the public and the Kashmiri leadership across both sides of the LoC.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe move on the part of Pakistan government also contravened the spirit of UN Security Council-UNSC- resolution 122 of 24 January 1957 which, the UK supported and which stated “that an attempt to change the status of Jammu Kashmir or any part of the state would not constitute a disposition of the state.” \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThis particular resolution was passed by the UNSC to repudiate the National Conference Government in Indian held Jammu Kashmir which wished to ‘ratify’- in contravention of a plethora of previous UN resolutions and recommendations, the conditional ‘accession’ of Jammu Kashmir to India in 1947 by Maharaja Hari Singh. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EWe would therefore expect that the UK extends its advice to government Pakistan, not to proceed with the intention of incorporating Gilgit Baltistan as part of Pakistan federation. Furthermore we expect that the UK would encourage Pakistan Government to reunite Gilgit Baltistan region with AJK, to constitute a single territorial constitutional entity of Jammu Kashmir territories that are being administered by Pakistan since 1947.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ESecretary of State the UK has a friendly and historic relationship with India and Pakistan and as such we would expect the UK government to extend strong and effective friendly advice to both countries, that they seriously address the question of Jammu Kashmir’s future political status with a purposeful and meaningful approach and actively involve the Kashmiris with their participation in the process under the UN’s auspices.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ESecretary of State as a permanent member of the UNSC, Britain has a legal as well as a moral obligation, to ensure that all peaceful political processes are harnessed so that 20 million forcibly divided people of Jammu Kashmir have the opportunity to exercise their basic democratic right over the future political status of Jammu Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EWith Regards\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003EProf Zafar Khan\u003Cbr \/\u003EChairman Diplomatic Bureau\u003Cbr \/\u003EJammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF\u003Cbr \/\u003ELondon Secretariat\u003Cbr \/\u003E119-123 Cannon Street Road\u003Cbr \/\u003ELondon\u003Cbr \/\u003EE1 2LX\u003Cbr \/\u003EEmail: \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Ca 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"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"JKLF"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/02254430121879903930"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_6ldKfiAPl3g\/SvMtSJ4IVAI\/AAAAAAAAAG4\/tDHk3eabTxY\/S220\/SLF+Sticker.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025183395565326371.post-6733238527800476149"},"published":{"$t":"2016-03-29T05:29:00.001-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-03-29T05:29:50.379-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Diplomatic"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"JKLF Letter to European Commission regarding Modi's visit to Brussels"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EH.E Madame Frederica Mogherini\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EHigh Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EEuropean Commission, Rue de la Loi\/ Wetstraat 200\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E1049 Brussels Belgium\u003Cb\u003E \u003C\/b\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E28 March 2016\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EDear Madame Mogherini,\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003ESub: Is Mr Modi’s India Ready to engage for a peaceful Solution over Kashmir?\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EWe first wrote to you in November 2014 reminding you of EU’s \u003Cb\u003Evital\u003C\/b\u003E role for a\u003Cb\u003E \u003C\/b\u003Ejust and peaceful resolution of the Kashmir issue, as well as welcoming you on succeeding Madam Ashton as the High Representative of the EU.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EToday we take this opportunity and write to you again as the European Union-EU- welcomes Indian Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi on 30 March 2016 in what is claimed by some MEPs with ‘open arms’.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EAs we seek a just and peaceful solution of the Kashmir issue we therefore ask the EU through your esteemed person\u003Cb\u003E: Is Mr Modi’s India ready to engage for a peaceful and lasting solution of the Kashmir issue based on the fundamental, inherent and inalienable rights of 20 million people\u0026nbsp; on both sides of the Line of Control-LoC?\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EHowever Madame Mogherini, before we take the liberty to ask some further questions regarding Mr Modi’s visit, we must put on record our profound sadness in connection with the recent terrorist attacks in Brussels and the loss of precious lives. We unequivocally condemn these heinous outrages and extend our sincere and heartfelt condolences to families of the deceased and the injured. Our prayers are with them and with the people of Belgium and hope that Brussels will soon return to normality with its customary welcoming and friendly atmosphere.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EWith reference to Mr Modi’s visit to the EU on 30 March 2016 we strongly hope that despite economic considerations with India, the EU will not overlook human rights violations being committed on daily basis in Kashmir by Indian military and para military forces. Madam innocent people-especially youngsters- are shot dead by the occupation forces under the cover of anti-people draconian laws.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EThe 700,000 Indian forces of occupation are responsible for the killing of 100,000 Kashmiris during the past 28 years. \u0026nbsp;There are 8000 missing people vanished without a trace. If Mr Modi is not responsible these one wonders who is? \u0026nbsp;There are over 7000 unmarked graves throughout the Indian occupied part of Jammu Kashmir. Some of the most heinous acts of depravity have been committed against Kashmiri women by the Indian regular army. The occupation forces act with impunity under the cover of draconian laws such as Armed Forces Special Powers Act-AFSPA.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EThe populace of Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir is not only subjected to the militarised oppression but is also experiencing the communal fury that has been unleashed by the BJP and its extreme right wing allies in Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir with dire consequences.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EMadame Mogherini it is not for us to remind you of what has happened under Mr Modi’s watch in India itself, as we always confine ourselves to the conduct of Indian occupation of Jammu Kashmir; but massacre of as many as two thousand innocent Indian citizens in Gujarat did take place when Mr Modi was Chief Minister there. Since Mr Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party-BJP- came into power, India has become more intolerant and chauvinistic due to BJP’s nexus with the ultra-extremist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sang-RSS, Shiv Sena and Vishwa Hindu Prashad-VHP. \u0026nbsp;The Indian Prime Minister therefore does not come to the EU with clean hands.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003E \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EWe look to you therefore, to take the Indian Prime Minister to task on the substantial issue of Kashmir’s future status, in accordance with India’s commitments on the matter at the United Nations. We hope and anticipate that you will remind Mr Modi of India’s responsibility to facilitate a plebiscite to ascertain the status of the territory in accordance with the unfettered democratic decision and expression of 20 million Kashmiris.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EWe would like to remind you madam that the Kashmir issue is wrongly seen as a territorial dispute between India and Pakistan. And that India and Pakistan should not be considered the arbiters of Kashmir’s future status. This right madam Mogherini is vested in the democratic expression of 20 million people of Jammu Kashmir, who along with their country are forcibly divided between India and Pakistan.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EMadame Mogherini, the Indian Prime Minister must be reminded that on 1 January 1948 it was an Indian government which took the Kashmir issue to the United Nations. And the following is an example of \u0026nbsp;an earliest Indian commitment on Kashmir: \u003Ci\u003E“ that the question of Kashmir’s future status vis-a vis its neighbours and the world at large and the question on whether Kashmir should withdraw from her accession to India, and either accede to Pakistan or remain independent with a right to claim admission as a member of the UN all this we have recognised to be a matter for unfettered decision by the people of Kashmir after normal life is restored to them”\u0026nbsp; \u003Cb\u003EUNSC document Agenda 227.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EOver the years successive Indian governments have hidden behind bilateral 1972 agreement- known as the Shimla Accord- between India and Pakistan to resolve the question of Kashmir’s future status. Thus far the entrenched positions of both countries and in particular, India’s intransigence, have yielded nothing by way of progress over the past 44 years. Since the bilateral agreement between India and Pakistan excludes the Kashmiris in the process, we Kashmiris do not recognise the Shimla Agreement.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EIndia unfortunately has reneged on all its commitments in respect of Kashmir, it is our sincere hope that you will take to task the Prime Minister of ‘largest democracy’ for reneging on his country’s international commitments, solemn pledges and obligations on the inherent and inalienable rights and aspirations of Kashmiris, to determine the political destiny of their choice. This is nothing short of the\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; betrayal of the United Nations’ trust and that of the international community which was reposed in India over the status of Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EMr Modi’s government deny pro freedom leadership the right of speech and assembly. The stifling of political and democratic expression is carried out through a combination of militarised oppression, police action, violent extremism and communal and chauvinist acts of the BJP and the RSS. For example over the past year alone, Chairman of the JKLF Mr Muhammed Yasin Malik\u0026nbsp; has been denied his basic democratic right of assembly and free speech\u0026nbsp; hundreds of times. This is hardly a reflection of a democratic society let alone the ‘largest democracy’!\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EEconomic considerations, India’s very large population and its power of consumption apart- the EU with its fundamental principles of democracy, justice, equality and fairness must not forsake the 20 million people of Jammu Kashmir. The EU more than others as a democratic economic and political block, must uphold the wishes, aspirations and rights of Kashmiri people. Doing so is consistent with the basic principles and values of the EU. No one else will uphold the right of Kashmiris to justice and fairness. India and to a lesser extend Pakistan have both utterly failed to do so since 1947.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EMadame Mogherini we urge you to make a start by taking the leader of the ‘largest democracy’- a democracy that incidentally has never extended beyond Indian border and into Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir- to task by asking him to meet India’s commitment over the future status of Kashmir. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EWe firmly believe that it would be an injustice to Kashmiris if the EU receives an Indian Prime Minister unconditionally with open arms as some Members of European Parliament –MEPs has suggested according to press reports.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EWarm regards,\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EProf Zafar Khan\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EChairman Diplomatic Bureau\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EJammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003ELondon Secretariat: 119-123 Cannon Street Road\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003ENorth Basement London E1 2LX\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EEmail: \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:zafargk@aol.com\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003Ezafargk@aol.com\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6733238527800476149\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2016\/03\/jklf-letter-to-european-commission.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/6733238527800476149"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/6733238527800476149"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2016\/03\/jklf-letter-to-european-commission.html","title":"JKLF Letter to European Commission regarding Modi's visit to Brussels"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"JKLF"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/02254430121879903930"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_6ldKfiAPl3g\/SvMtSJ4IVAI\/AAAAAAAAAG4\/tDHk3eabTxY\/S220\/SLF+Sticker.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025183395565326371.post-4354669519671502096"},"published":{"$t":"2016-02-23T09:04:00.001-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-03-08T08:57:52.253-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Diplomatic"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Jammu Kashmir Conflict- Conflicting Perspectives  BY Prof Zafar Khan "},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003EBelow is the text of the paper presented by Prof Zafar Khan during a\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003ESeminar on Kashmir Issue held at Kings College London entitled\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;“Jammu Kashmir Conflict- Conflicting Perspectives” on 18 Feb 2016\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003E*By Zafar Khan\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003EChairman:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003EDr Dibyesh Anand, I wish to extend my thanks to you and the organisers of this seminar entitled: Jammu Kashmir Conflict: Conflicting Perspectives.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003ERight at the outset we must acknowledge that the biggest danger to peace between India and Pakistan and the wider region, is the unresolved issue of Jammu Kashmir and its future political status.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003ECurrently Jammu Kashmir-generally referred to as Kashmir, has a huge military presence on both sides of the Line of Control-LoC- that forcibly divides it between India and Pakistan.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003EIndia has its Norther Military Command situated in Kashmir, comprising of at least three corps of the Indian army. This huge military force is supported by thousands of paramilitary battalions that make a combined force well in excess of half a million personnel.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003EWhat is most disturbing however is the impunity with which these Indian military and para military forces operate against civilians, and have done so since 1988.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003EChairman, I do not want to dwell \u0026nbsp;on this most saturated of military deployments anywhere in the world, and its impact on normal human activity in Kashmir, suffice to say that the mere presence of the military in such huge numbers in itself, is a major\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Eimpediment to peace and normal human social and political interaction\u003C\/i\u003E. While this is true both in the rural and urban areas within Indian held Jammu Kashmir, it is also the reality across both sides of the Line of Control.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003EWithout intending to appear ill-intentioned to\u003Ci\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Eone or the other side Chairman, it is certainly compelling to conclude that the sheer presence of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, deployed eye-ball to eye ball by two powerful nuclear states, across the LoC, cannot be a conducive factor for a peaceful future. Peace will not appear in Kashmir one day simply because we the Kashmiris desire it, and desire we do!\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003EWith your indulgence Chairman, I would like to remind the audience that for over twenty years now, pro freedom Kashmiri leadership adopted a peaceful and non-violent struggle for self-determination and reunification of Kashmir.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003EThe Indian government however, remains as intransigent as ever, and confines pro freedom and reunification leadership either in custody or under house arrest. Mr Yasin Malik the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003EChairman of\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003EJammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF- for example over the past few months\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003Ealone, has been beaten up, put under arrest dozens of times and prevented from political\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003Eand social interaction with the people. Indian authorities use military and paramilitary forces as well as the local police to prevent him from exercising his fundamental democratic right of free expression and assembly. Even as I speak Mr Yasin Malik is hospitalised while under custody.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003EChairman, Kashmir must not be seen as a territorial dispute between India and Pakistan nor must it be considered as a domestic matter of India as so often Indian governments claim. As we know, the genesis of Kashmir dispute, begins at least at the international level, with India taking the matter to the United Nations Security Council on 1 January 1948.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003ENot only did the UN pass many resolutions on the Kashmir issue, its UN Military Observer Group on India and Pakistan-UNMOGIP- personnel are operational in the territory under resolution 47 of April 1948.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003ESolemn commitments were made and pledges were given by India and supported by the US, UK and other major powers, so that the dispute over the Kashmir issue could be resolved in accordance with the wishes of the people.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003EChairman, I am conscious of the time and will therefore not go in to details of the Kashmir conflict, and how for 68 years India and Pakistan have utterly failed to resolve it.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003EWho can begrudge the 20 million Kashmiris therefore, for feeling betrayed, at the indifference and abandonment of their basic human right- the right to national self-determination and the right to reunification- a right that not only India but all major powers recognised.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003EIndia for example in one of its many solemn pledges on Kashmir declared:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003E“that the question of Kashmir’s future status vis-a-vis its neighbours and the world at large and the question on whether Kashmir should withdraw from her accession to India, and either accede to Pakistan or remain independent with a right to claim admission as a member of the United Nations all this we have recognised to be a matter for unfettered decision by the people of Kashmir after normal life is restored to them” UNSC document Agenda 227.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003EUnfortunately Chairman, India has completely and blatantly reneged on the above and many other commitments, and has consistently prevaricated over its bilateral Shimla Accord of 1972 with Pakistan, in which both countries agreed to resolve the conflict in accordance with the wishes of the people.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003EChairman without a shadow of doubt peace is the only option for Kashmir, and Kashmiris are ready to play their part in the process. Unfortunately it seems that Kashmiris do not have partners to engage with for a just and peaceful solution of the future political status of their country. In fact the pro freedom leadership would\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Ewant Kashmir to be the common ground for peace making in the region.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003EKashmir therefore in our view, must become a bridge of friendship and lasting prosperity for India, Pakistan, the 20 million inhabitants of Kashmir, and the whole region of south, south west and central Asia.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003EChairman, peace-making is a serious process, and as such cannot be instituted by a single entity or by India and Pakistan whose hostility against each other is embedded in their history. However they must recognise the futility of perpetual conflict and uncertainty in the region. Over the past four decades we have seen what has become of the Shimla Accord, let alone the many UN resolutions and the promised plebiscite on the future status of the forcibly divided Jammu Kashmir state.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003EChairman, India and Pakistan seemingly have decided to resume their bilateral interaction with the unexpected stop-over in Lahore by Mr Modi to meet Mr Nawaz Sharif, in December 2015. Pathankot incident however, appears to have jeopardised the intended course of interaction that the two countries may have envisaged in their “Compressive Dialogue” process.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003EWhile any rapprochement between India and Pakistan is a step in the right direction, we do however have strong reservations if Kashmir and Kashmiris are not included in such a dialogue process. This quite clearly appears to be the case in our view, in the proposed dialogue process between the two countries. Inevitably therefore we will not support an Indo- Pak dialogue process that excludes Kashmir and Kashmiris.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003EIn conclusion Chairman, an opportunity has arisen for both Mr Modi and Mr Nawaz Sharif, to secure an historic peace deal for our time and all times to come.\u0026nbsp; Future prosperity and wellbeing of 1.5 billion people of the sub-continent depends on just such a peaceful resolution of the Kashmir conflict. A resolution that enables 20 million Kashmiris to exercise their unfettered, democratic right of self-determination. In order to secure a lasting peace in the region, both countries must allow participation and representation of pro azadi and anti-status quo Kashmiri leadership in the dialogue process.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003E*Zafar Khan is head of Diplomatic Bureau of the JKLF.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E--\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E______________________________\u003Cwbr\u003E\u003C\/wbr\u003E____________\u003Cbr \/\u003EJammu Kashmir Liberation Front -JKLF- (UK Zone)\u003Cbr \/\u003EEmail:- \u0026nbsp; 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\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;“Jammu Kashmir Conflict- Conflicting Perspectives”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E18-February 2016\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy Zafar Khan\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChairman:\u003Cbr \/\u003EDr Dibyesh Anand, I wish to extend my thanks to you and the organisers of this seminar entitled: Jammu Kashmir Conflict: Conflicting Perspectives.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERight at the outset we must acknowledge that the biggest danger to peace between India and Pakistan and the wider region, is the unresolved issue of Jammu Kashmir and its future political status.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECurrently Jammu Kashmir-generally referred to as Kashmir, has a huge military presence on both sides of the Line of Control-LoC- that forcibly divides it between India and Pakistan.\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndia has its Norther Military Command situated in Kashmir, comprising of at least three corps of the Indian army. This huge military force is supported by thousands of paramilitary battalions that make a combined force well in excess of half a million personnel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat is most disturbing however is the impunity with which these Indian military and para military forces operate against civilians, and have done so since 1988.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChairman, I do not want to dwell \u0026nbsp;on this most saturated of military deployments anywhere in the world, and its impact on normal human activity in Kashmir, suffice to say that the mere presence of the military in such huge numbers in itself, is a major impediment to peace and normal human social and political interaction. While this is true both in the rural and urban areas within Indian held Jammu Kashmir, it is also the reality across both sides of the Line of Control.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWithout intending to appear ill-intentioned to one or the other side Chairman, it is certainly compelling to conclude that the sheer presence of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, deployed eye-ball to eye ball by two powerful nuclear states, across the LoC, cannot be a conducive factor for a peaceful future. Peace will not appear in Kashmir one day simply because we the Kashmiris desire it, and desire we do!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWith your indulgence Chairman, I would like to remind the audience that for over twenty years now, pro freedom Kashmiri leadership adopted a peaceful and non-violent struggle for self-determination and reunification of Kashmir.\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Indian government however, remains as intransigent as ever, and confines pro freedom and reunification leadership either in custody or under house arrest. Mr Yasin Malik the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003EChairman of \u0026nbsp;Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF- for example over the past few months \u0026nbsp;alone, has been beaten up, put under arrest dozens of times and prevented from political \u0026nbsp;and social interaction with the people. Indian authorities use military and paramilitary forces as well as the local police to prevent him from exercising his fundamental democratic right of free expression and assembly. Even as I speak Mr Yasin Malik is hospitalised while under custody.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChairman, Kashmir must not be seen as a territorial dispute between India and Pakistan nor must it be considered as a domestic matter of India as so often Indian governments claim. As we know, the genesis of Kashmir dispute, begins at least at the international level, with India taking the matter to the United Nations Security Council on 1 January 1948.\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot only did the UN pass many resolutions on the Kashmir issue, its UN Military Observer Group on India and Pakistan-UNMOGIP- personnel are operational in the territory under resolution 47 of April 1948.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESolemn commitments were made and pledges were given by India and supported by the US, UK and other major powers, so that the dispute over the Kashmir issue could be resolved in accordance with the wishes of the people.\u003Cbr \/\u003EChairman, I am conscious of the time and will therefore not go in to details of the Kashmir conflict, and how for 68 years India and Pakistan have utterly failed to resolve it.\u003Cbr \/\u003EWho can begrudge the 20 million Kashmiris therefore, for feeling betrayed, at the indifference and abandonment of their basic human right- the right to national self-determination and the right to reunification- a right that not only India but all major powers recognised.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndia for example in one of its many solemn pledges on Kashmir declared:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003E“that the question of Kashmir’s future status vis-a-vis its neighbours and the world at large and the question on whether Kashmir should withdraw from her accession to India, and either accede to Pakistan or remain independent with a right to claim admission as a member of the United Nations all this we have recognised to be a matter for unfettered decision by the people of Kashmir after normal life is restored to them” UNSC document Agenda 227.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnfortunately Chairman, India has completely and blatantly reneged on the above and many other commitments, and has consistently prevaricated over its bilateral Shimla Accord of 1972 with Pakistan, in which both countries agreed to resolve the conflict in accordance with the wishes of the people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChairman without a shadow of doubt peace is the only option for Kashmir, and Kashmiris are ready to play their part in the process. Unfortunately it seems that Kashmiris do not have partners to engage with for a just and peaceful solution of the future political status of their country. In fact the pro freedom leadership would want Kashmir to be the common ground for peace making in the region.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003EKashmir therefore in our view, must become a bridge of friendship and lasting prosperity for India, Pakistan, the 20 million inhabitants of Kashmir, and the whole region of south, south west and central Asia.Chairman, peace-making is a serious process, and as such cannot be instituted by a single entity or by India and Pakistan whose hostility against each other is embedded in their history. However they must recognise the futility of perpetual conflict and uncertainty in the region. Over the past four decades we have seen what has become of the Shimla Accord, let alone the many UN resolutions and the promised plebiscite on the future status of the forcibly divided Jammu Kashmir state.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChairman, India and Pakistan seemingly have decided to resume their bilateral interaction with the unexpected stop-over in Lahore by Mr Modi to meet Mr Nawaz Sharif, in December 2015. Pathankot incident however, appears to have jeopardised the intended course of interaction that the two countries may have envisaged in their “Compressive Dialogue” process.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile any rapprochement between India and Pakistan is a step in the right direction, we do however have strong reservations if Kashmir and Kashmiris are not included in such a dialogue process. This quite clearly appears to be the case in our view, in the proposed dialogue process between the two countries. Inevitably therefore we will not support an Indo- Pak dialogue process that excludes Kashmir and Kashmiris.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn conclusion Chairman, an opportunity has arisen for both Mr Modi and Mr Nawaz Sharif, to secure an historic peace deal for our time and all times to come. \u0026nbsp;Future prosperity and wellbeing of 1.5 billion people of the sub-continent depends on just such a peaceful resolution of the Kashmir conflict. A resolution that enables 20 million Kashmiris to exercise their unfettered, democratic right of self-determination. In order to secure a lasting peace in the region, both countries must allow participation and representation of pro azadi and anti-status quo Kashmiri leadership in the dialogue process. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E*Zafar Khan is head of Diplomatic Bureau of the JKLF.\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1538805271088127850\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/jammu-kashmir-conflict-conflicting.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/1538805271088127850"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/1538805271088127850"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/jammu-kashmir-conflict-conflicting.html","title":" Jammu Kashmir Conflict- Conflicting Perspectives"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Israr khan"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13729211016665509139"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"24","height":"32","src":"\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-CdBYzwLvfqE\/VsY3XN6_eBI\/AAAAAAAAQw8\/V6yZGPHZ7YI\/s220\/facebook_1450126311135.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025183395565326371.post-8144523630334029202"},"published":{"$t":"2016-01-18T09:23:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-03-08T09:23:34.704-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Diplomatic"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Letter to Pakistan High Commission by JKLF diplomatic Committee "},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EHis Excellency Syed Ibne Abbas\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EPakistan High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E34-36 Lowndes Square\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;London SW1X 9NJ \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E18 January 2016\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003ESubject:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003ETo seek an urgent meeting with H.E Pakistan High Commissioner in the UK, on Pakistan government’s intention to change status of \u0026nbsp;Gilgit Baltistan by making the region a province of Pakistan.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EDear Excellency, an All Party Conference-APC- of Kashmiri leaders was convened in Luton on 15 January 2016, to address the serious implications of Gilgit Baltistan’s integration into the Federation of Pakistan. It was resolved by the APC that a delegation of Kashmiri leaders should meet with your Excellency to convey the concerns of the leadership to the government of Pakistan.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EThe APC resolved that Gilgit Baltistan was an indivisible, historic and constitutional part of Jammu Kashmir, and as such change of its status will not be acceptable.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EThe APC resolved that, integration of Gilgit Baltistan into the Federation of Pakistan, will be a violation of the constitution of Pakistan and a clear contravention of all the UN resolutions on the Kashmir dispute….. The APC resolved that until the final resolution of the Kashmir dispute, the following course of action should be adopted as an interim solution: \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003Ea)\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EEither Gilgit Baltistan and Azad Jammu Kashmir-AJK- are merged together to form a national government of the two regions of Pakistan administered Kashmir:\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpLast\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpLast\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003Eb)\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EOr Gilgit Baltistan is allowed to form similar political structures of government and governance as currently exist in AJK.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpLast\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EThe APC further resolved that Gilgit Baltistan and AJK must be allowed to control all their natural and economic resources.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EThe APC has deputed me to request for an earliest possible date for the delegation to meet with you, on this pressing national matter. Your Excellency’s kind and favourable consideration will be greatly appreciated.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EYours Sincerely\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;Professor Zafar Khan\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EParticipating Parties in the APC: \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EMC, JKLF, AJKPP, PPP, PTI, PMLN, JKNAP, Tehrek-e- Kashmir, and Building Bridges.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EAddress for communication\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E53 Clarendon Rd Luton LU2 7PJ\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EEmail: \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:zafargk@aol.com\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003Ezafargk@aol.com\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8144523630334029202\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2016\/01\/letter-to-pakistan-high-commission-by.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/8144523630334029202"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/8144523630334029202"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2016\/01\/letter-to-pakistan-high-commission-by.html","title":"Letter to Pakistan High Commission by JKLF diplomatic Committee "}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"J K L F"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17912188462951931200"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"19","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_RoCji4VwOvs\/Sg2SrdjusAI\/AAAAAAAAAKw\/t_nQV17OijM\/S220\/jklflag.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025183395565326371.post-1095174074859651693"},"published":{"$t":"2015-12-29T09:19:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-03-08T09:20:31.383-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Diplomatic"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"JKLF will hold an important press conference at its London Secretariat on Thursday 31st December 2015 at 12 noon."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"ecxMsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 21.3px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\"\u003ELondon (29 December 2015)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"ecxMsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\"\u003EJKLF will hold an important press conference at its London Secretariat on Thursday 31\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Csup style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.9333px;\"\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;December 2015 at 12 noon.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"ecxMsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\"\u003EThe address of the secretariat is\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"ecxMsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 21.3px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cb style=\"line-height: 22.72px;\"\u003EJKLF Diplomatic Bureau\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"ecxMsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cb style=\"line-height: 22.72px;\"\u003E119-123 Cannon Street Road,\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"ecxMsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cb style=\"line-height: 22.72px;\"\u003EBasement North\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"ecxMsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cb style=\"line-height: 22.72px;\"\u003ELondon\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"ecxMsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cb style=\"line-height: 22.72px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 22.72px;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"ecxMsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cb style=\"line-height: 22.72px;\"\u003EE1 2LX\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"ecxMsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\"\u003EThe press conference has been called by the JKLF’s Diplomatic Bureau and will be addressed by its Chairman Professor Zafar Khan along with leaders of the JKLF’s British Chapter.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"ecxMsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\"\u003EThe press conference has been called to protest at the arrests in Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir of JKLF’s Chairman Mr Yasin Malik and other senior JKLF leaders on trumped up charges of attempt to murder and waging war against the Indian state.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"ecxMsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\"\u003EOn 27\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Csup style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.9333px;\"\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;December Mr Malik and other senior JKLF leaders were charged and remanded in judicial custody at the Srinagar central jail for 10 days.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"ecxMsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\"\u003EIt must be remembered that Mr Malik and his colleagues were peacefully protesting against the terrorism of the so-called state sponsored Village Defence Committees-VDCs that have unleashed a reign of terror against the\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Muslim population in general and\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;pro freedom activists in particular, in the Jammu province. The VDC’s current terror tactics included the murder of a mother and her son in the Budhal area of the Jammu region.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"ecxMsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\"\u003EAt the press conference JKLF will call on its members to mount a suitably effective political and diplomatic response against the inhuman and undemocratic arrests and oppressive methods meted out to the JKLF and its leaders by the Indian occupation authorities in Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"ecxMsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\"\u003EMembers of the Press and media are therefore cordially invited to attend this important press conference.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"ecxMsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 21.3px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"line-height: 22.72px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"ecxMsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\"\u003EThanking you in anticipation.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"ecxMsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\"\u003EFor and on behalf of the JKLF\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"ecxMsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 21.3px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\"\u003EDiplomatic Bureau\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"ecxMsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 21.3px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\"\u003EMahmud Hussain\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"ecxMsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"line-height: 21.3px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;\"\u003E07956400834\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1095174074859651693\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2015\/12\/jklf-will-hold-important-press.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/1095174074859651693"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/1095174074859651693"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2015\/12\/jklf-will-hold-important-press.html","title":"JKLF will hold an important press conference at its London Secretariat on Thursday 31st December 2015 at 12 noon."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"J K L F"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17912188462951931200"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"19","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_RoCji4VwOvs\/Sg2SrdjusAI\/AAAAAAAAAKw\/t_nQV17OijM\/S220\/jklflag.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025183395565326371.post-8823449277501223515"},"published":{"$t":"2015-10-21T08:56:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-03-08T08:56:20.433-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Diplomatic"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Memorandum Presented at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office-FCO by the JKLF delegation"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EMemorandum on India’s oppression in Kashmir, including denial of right to assembly and free speech, denying JKLF Chairman Mr Yasin Malik his fundamental right to engage with the public, and growing violent extremist chauvinism led by BJP and RSS nexus in Jammu Kashmir; and on the inaction of UN permanent members including the United Kingdom in the resolution of the Kashmir issue.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EPresented at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office-FCO by the JKLF delegation during discussion with the FCO officials on 21 October 2015.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EAs the UK prepares to welcome Indian Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi in November 2015 we consider it our duty to remind Her Majesty’s Government-HMG- that Mr Modi must be taken to task on the unresolved political status of Jammu Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EMr Modi should be taken to task on communalism, extremism and chauvinism that has been unleashed under his watch in Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EHe should be taken to task on the oppressive and undemocratic methods adopted by Indian occupation forces to stifle public expression, and deny the pro freedom and anti-status quo politicians like Mr Yasin Malik, their democratic right to engage with the masses in the public square.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EHe should be reminded that on 1 January 1948 it was an Indian government led by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru which took the Kashmir issue to the United Nations. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003EHe should be reminded that on 27 October 1947 India invaded Kashmir by landing a battalion of her troops in Srinagar, under the pretext that the then despotic ruler had acceded Kashmir to India on the previous day. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003EHe should be reminded that it is more credible to believe that a plan might already have existed to invade Kashmir under the pretext of accession, when British India was partitioned into India and Pakistan on 14 and 15 August 1947 respectively.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003EHe should be reminded that India invaded Kashmir to throttle a freedom movement of people who endured unimaginable suffering and despotism at the hands of their rulers.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003EMr Modi should be reminded of the fact that unlike Pakistan, India refused to enter into ‘Stand Still Agreement’ with the Government of Jammu Kashmir prior to the partition of British India- which clearly indicated India’s ill intent towards Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003EMr Modi should be reminded that newly emancipated and decolonised India had in fact invaded a country that was an independent and sovereign nation between 15 August, (India’s Independence Day) and 27 October 1947, the day Jammu Kashmir was invaded.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003EThis is certainly the conclusion of independent observers on the period which includes among others, the respected British historian and expert on Kashmir Alastair lamb. Poignantly Kashmiris throughout the world, mark 27 October as a Black day in their history.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EMr Modi should be reminded that there are numerous United Nations Resolutions that clearly stipulate that a plebiscite under the UN’s auspices must be facilitated by India and Pakistan to determine the future status of the state of Jammu Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EThe first of these resolutions was passed in April 1948 then subsequently a plethora of resolutions followed in June 1948, August 1948, January 1949, March 1950, March 1951 and January 1957; all these resolutions require the state of India mainly, to facilitate a plebiscite for determining the status of Jammu Kashmir with unfettered participation of the populace in the plebiscite. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EMr Modi should be reminded that India made many commitments and pledges at the UN, including the following to comply with the wishes, aspirations and rights of the people of Kashmir:\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003E“that the question of Kashmir’s future status vis-a-vis its neighbours and the world at large and the question on whether Kashmir should withdraw from her accession to India, and either accede to Pakistan or remain independent with a right to claim admission as a member of the United Nations all this we have recognised to be a matter for unfettered decision by the people of Kashmir after normal life is restored to them”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003E \u003Ci\u003EUNSC document Agenda 227.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EHow ironic that India which demands a permanent seat on the UN Security Council has completely reneged on her solemn commitments and obligations in relation to the Kashmir issue.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EIndia has failed to honour the Shimla Accord of 1972 with Pakistan that required both countries to resolve the Kashmir issue in accordance with the wishes of the Kashmiri people.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EToday Mr Modi and his lieutenants have gone as far as to say that there is no Kashmir problem or Kashmir issue, as was declared quite blatantly by Mrs Sushma Swaraj last month at the UN General assembly in New York.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EIt is incredible therefore that India is demanding a seat at the top table in the comity of nations when she does not care to honour the resolutions of this August world body which with the purpose of its inception, is bound to uphold, the fundamental principles of justice, liberty and democracy for the subjugated, dispossessed and colonised people of the world like the 20 million people of Jammu Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EIt has to be said however that the UN and the permanent members of the UN Security Council, -UNSC- on the question of Kashmir’s future political and constitutional status, have patently failed the 20 million Kashmiris in resolving the issue in accordance with their fundamental right to self-determination.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EWe strongly believe that UNSC’s Inaction has enabled India to holds on to Kashmir with the force of arms with the presence of over 700-000 military and paramilitary forces of occupation in the territory. These forces, over the past 27 years have killed around 100-000 people, with thousands missing and many hundreds buried in unmarked graves throughout parts of Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir. And over these 27 years these forces have committed some of the most outrageous acts of brutality including rape.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EAs pointed out above Mr Modi should be taken to task on the extremism and chauvinism that his political rhetoric and Hindutva ideology has encouraged, not only in Jammu Kashmir but also in India itself.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003ESince 2014 Mr Modi’s BJP led government has aggressively pursued its chauvinistic political ideology and has orchestrated to subvert the harmonious social character of society in Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EMr Modi never tires of reminding the world of India being a democracy of one hundred and twenty five crores or 1.25 billion people. In reality however Indian democracy is defunct and quite tenuous beyond the borders of Jammu Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EAs if presence of 700-000 military and para military forces of occupation was not sufficient in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP government has unleashed forces of extremism that have become out of control in Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EThe ultra-right wing extremism and chauvinism of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Shiv Sena, Vishwa Hindu Prashad (VHP), and an assortment of other belligerent extremists, have taken lead from Prime Minister Modi’s Hindutva ideology and bellicose political rhetoric that has given rise to extremism which has crossed all limits of decency and civilised behaviour. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EPolitical and democratic expression is being stifled through a combination of militarised oppression and violent extremism, chauvinism and communalist acts of BJP and the RSS. Anti-status quo popular leaders like Mr Yasin Malik are prevented contact with masses in an alarming frequency which is not only an affront to democracy but would not be accepted in a democratic society.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EAs can be seen below, Mr Malik has been arrested or put under house arrest dozens of times only in a period of last couple of months alone. Even during the assembly elections in November \/ December of 2014, Mr Malik was incarcerated throughout the seven week long\u0026nbsp; process, and\u0026nbsp; was denied not only contact with the public but the Indian authorities violated his basic democratic right of assembly and free expression by keeping him in custody.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EMr Modi since coming to power had intended to change the character of Kashmiri society on the one hand, and on the other Kashmir’s relationship and temporary arrangement under the so called accession treaty with India.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EWithin first 5 months of his Premiership Mr Modi visited Kashmir 8 times to bring about his intended change. In the 2014 assembly elections he had hoped to secure a majority for his BJP which he failed to obtain despite investing so much time and effort.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EMr Modi’s party however secured 29 seats in the 87 seat assembly but all of the seats were won from the Jammu province. This result therefore reflected that Kashmiri politics had become polarised on communal lines with the Modi factor.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003ENevertheless Modi government forced a coalition with the PDP and has since begun to influence policies and actions that have communalised sections of society within the Jammu region who are heavily influenced by the BJP\/ RSS extreme chauvinist political rhetoric.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003ERepressive and heavy handed actions against Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF- and in particular its Chairman Mr Yasin Malik, as well as other anti-status quo leaders have increased over the past year.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EMr Modi wished to abrogate article 370 of the Indian constitution which affirms the autonomous status of Jammu Kashmir, and stipulates the temporary and provisional nature of its relationship and arrangements with India.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EHowever Mr Modi’s failure to have article 370 abrogated led him to embarked upon creating ‘facts on the ground’ by\u0026nbsp; making demographic changes both in Jammu as well as in the valley of Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EKashmiris however whemently opposed the BJP machinations with political activism by the anti-status quo leaders like Mr Malik. The coalition however has exacerbated the political atmosphere due mainly in its failure to curb the rise of communalism and chauvinism of the BJP and RSS in Jammu region of the state.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EDeath of truck driver Zahid Rasool Butt (succumbed to his injuries on 18 October), who was attacked by RSS backed extremists in Unhamper, is a sad example of this state of affairs that now prevails in Jammu Kashmir. This situation is the handiwork of rulers who have created an ‘atmosphere’ that “pollutes and communalises” society according to Mr Yasin Malik. \u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EThe forces of extremism and chauvinism act with impunity as they have no fear of penalties or legal retribution. Their actions are an attempt to vitiate the traditional socio- cultural and political solidarity of Jammu Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EIt has to be said that the tyranny of the BJP and RSS led extremism is a direct result of the Modi effect or phenomenon. His political rhetoric gives the extremists a green signal in adopting social, cultural and political chauvinism, that prior to 2014 had not been a factor in Kashmiri society.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EThe BJP and RSS extremism is a dangerous and troubling development that would further polarise Jammu Kashmir on religious lines. The ideological collusion and nexus of the BJP and the RSS creates fear, intimidation and violence that does not bode well for peace and communal harmony in the region and particularly in Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EThe presence of more than 700,000 thousand military and paramilitary forces of occupation further emboldens the unholy nexus of these forces of communal disharmony and extremist chauvinism.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EThe state oppression and denial of right to assembly and free speech is an intolerable situation to which Mr Yasin Malik and other prominent anti-status quo leaders are subjected to day in day out.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EMr Modi’s frequent refrain of India being a democracy of 125 crore loses its meaning when a popular leader of MrYasin Malik’s stature is taken in custody or put under house arrest even during the wedding of his close family members.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8pt;\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003EThe following account of Mr Malik’s arrests is 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lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003EDetails of Mr. Yasin Malik’s arrests and house arrest from August 2015.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003EOn way to district Pulwama arrested at Pantha Chowk, Srinagar on 12 August while going to attend the funeral ceremony of one local innocent young civilian Bilal Ahmed Butt who was killed by Indian forces.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003EAhead of Indo-Pak NSA meeting that was scheduled to be held on 23 August.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003EMr. Malik was arrested from his residence and detained in a local Police Station (PS) on 20 August and released on Aug. 25.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003EArrested at Safapora on 28 August while going to district HQ’s of Bandipora to lead and address a peaceful protest rally against human rights violations. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003EHouse arrested on 6 September on the pretext of Kashmir Flood Anniversary Peaceful Programmes that were scheduled to be held on 7 September organised by local trade and business community to remember the catastrophe and the losses. Released on 8 September.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003EPut under house arrest on 11 September and was not allowed to lead and address a peaceful rally at the district HQ in Ganderbal.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003EArrested at Zenageer near Sopore and lodged at Sopore PS on 15 September and was not allowed to attend the funeral ceremony of \u0026nbsp;Bashir Ahmed and son 3 year old Burhan Bashir who were killed by unidentified gunmen backed by government sponsored special task force of police. He was later released on 17 September.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003EArrested on 22 September while holding a token one day hunger strike against BJP, VHP and RSS high handedness and anti-Kashmir policies adopted by state and Indian authorities, and especially against RSS threats to block Jammu highway from the Valley of Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003EPut under house arrest on the evening of 24 September on the pretext of Eid-ul-Azha the next day. Was not allowed to offer Eid prayers.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003EPut under house arrest a day before he was scheduled to lead and address a peaceful protest rally at Kangan in district Ganderbal on 2 October.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003EArrested from his residence on 8 October and detained at the Kothi-bagh PS on the pretext that he was to lead a peaceful protest rally at Lal Chowk, Srinagar the following day on 9 October against human rights violations and high handedness of RSS, Indian forces and state authorities. It is worth mentioning here that his elder sister’s son was to enter into wedlock on 8 October and Mr. Malik, and his maternal uncle were to accompany the groom’s wedding party -Barat- and the wedding \u0026nbsp;function was to take place at Mr. Malik’s residence.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003EMr Malik was put under house arrest on 11 October when RSS extremists attacked truck drivers from the valley of Kashmir on Jammu Highway near Udhampur. Mr. Malik appealed to the public to observe a peaceful bandh (shut down) on 12 October against the attacks by BJP and RSS extremists and chauvinists backed by government machinery. Mr Malik was immediately put under house arrest.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003EMr Malik was prevented from attending the funeral of Zahid Rasool Butt (murdered truck driver) at Islamabad in South Kashmir, and was put under house arrest 19 October. Zahid Rasool was attacked by RSS extremists on Jammu Highway near Udhampur and succumbed to his injuries on 18 October.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpLast\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"\u003E\u003C!--[if !supportLists]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;\"\u003E·\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C!--[endif]--\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003EPrevented from addressing a rally in Islamabad on 20 October, to protest at the murder of Zahid Rasool Butt and taken in custody at Islamabad police station.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003EThe method and manner of Mr Malik’s arrests, is clearly undemocratic and devoid of any justification. Mr Malik is a popular leader who commands respect and love of his people and by denying him direct contact with the masses is a serious disregard of his political and democratic rights.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003EMr Malik’s frequent arrests and denial of his right to engage with the public is a clear indication that India fears the popular will of the Kashmiri masses.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003EDespite India’s incessant mantra that Kashmir is an integral part of India or that Kashmir issue does not exist, and that it is all Pakistan’s doing, and that people of Kashmir are ‘happy’ with India; all that can be said in response is that India should allow democratic, moderate and popular leaders like Yasin Malik to engage in the public square.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003EThis is a challenge India is not prepared to accept by deny leadership and the people to have a say on the future status of the Jammu Kashmir state in a democratic and free plebiscite.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003EIndia’s intransigence and prevarications over Kashmir are a clear betrayal of the UN and India’s responsibilities and obligations over Kashmir. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003EPakistan too considers the Kashmir issue and the dispute as the ‘unfinished agenda’ of the partition of British India. It therefore becomes all the more important that the dispute is resolved in accordance with the democratic will and fundamental rights of the people.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoListParagraph\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003ERegrettably British view is that India is a responsible state and therefore it can be trusted with permanent membership of the UNSC. In our view however this would be tantamount to rewarding India for her intransigence and betrayals over its obligations both at the UN as well as in bilateral commitments on Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003EAs permanent member of the UNSC Britain has an obligation to ensure that Kashmiris are allowed the opportunity to exercise their inherent and inalienable right to self determination\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003EKashmiris want peace between India and Pakistan. They harbour a strong desire for Kashmir to become a bridge of peace and prosperity, and not a bone of contention and enmity in the South Asian sub-continent.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003ETo this end however it is an absolute necessity that constructive engagement and dialogue takes place between the concerned parties. Thus far however Mr Modi has shown no desire for dialogue with Pakistan and the Kashmiris.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003EAs long as powerful country like Britain, with privileged position in world affairs maintains the view, that the “pace and scope” of interaction over Kashmir is up to India and Pakistan, unfortunately such a passive British ‘nudge’ will add no moral or diplomatic pressure on India to be constructive over resolving the Kashmir issue.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003EFurthermore as permanent member of the United Nations’ Security Council -UNSC- such a passive British position on an extremely dangerous issue, that could precipitate a catastrophic fourth war between India and Pakistan, is an abandonment of 20 million Kashmiris and their fundamental right to freedom.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003EProf Zafar Khan\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003EHead of Diplomatic Bureau\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003EJammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003ELondon Secretariat.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003ENorth Basement\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003E119-123 Cannon Street Road\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003ELondon E1 2LX\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003EEmail: \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:zafargk@aol.com\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;\"\u003Ezafargk@aol.com\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; 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color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;\"\u003EDear Mr Corbyn,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;\"\u003EIn the first instance I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on becoming leader of the British Labour Party.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;\"\u003EYou may not recall but I met you in mid 1990s to seek your support \u0026nbsp;on the Kashmiri peoples's right to self determination and the peaceful resolution of the Kashmir issue. As I recall Mr Corbyn you \u0026nbsp;asked me a few probing questions in particular regarding the objectives and ideology of our movement and the nature of reunified and free Jammu Kashmir that we as a liberation movement were seeking to achieve.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;\"\u003EIn a \u0026nbsp;meeting that lasted for around 30 minutes \u0026nbsp;you heard my responses to your questions carefully and with utmost courtesy. You assured me that in principle you would support the Kashmiris's right to self-determination.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;\"\u003EWe also met \u0026nbsp;very briefly for the second time when you visited Luton a few years ago where our mutual \u0026nbsp;friend and your fellow Parliamentarian Mr Kelvin Hopkins MP introduced me to you.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;\"\u003EYou' ve become \u0026nbsp;leader of a party whose roots are embedded against exploitation and suffering \u0026nbsp;of \u0026nbsp;ordinary people, and a party which was determined to eradicate inequality, exploitation and suffering \u0026nbsp;for ever.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;\"\u003EYour success in becoming the leader of this progressive and people centric political party symbolises \u0026nbsp;that founding spirit of the Labour Party.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;\"\u003EThe manner of support within the party to your candidature in my view is the wider reflection of the yearning within the British people for a genuine and realistic change to share the resources of this great country fairly and equitably across society.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;\"\u003EI am confident that the momentum and dynamism of the current \u0026nbsp;spirit in the revitalised Labour Party will \u0026nbsp;enable \u0026nbsp;a change of government in 2020 under your leadership.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"line-height: 21.3px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;\"\u003EMr Corbyn as you are a great supporter of causes against exploitation and oppression at home and abroad, \u0026nbsp;I am confident that as Leader of the Opposition you and the Labour Party \u0026nbsp;will not forsake the plight and suffering of 20 million people if Jammu Kashmir and will use every opportunity to seek and support a peaceful, just and a democratic \u0026nbsp;resolution of the \u0026nbsp;issue which is the longest unresolved \u0026nbsp;dispute at the United Nations .And an isdue over which India and Pakistan have fought two full scale wars and continue to confront each other agressive across the Line of Control-LoC- with periodic shootings that result in deaths of Kashmiri civilians as well as soldiers of both countries.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;\"\u003EMr Corbyn as Kashmiris we seek to ensure that Kashmir becomes a bridge of peace rather than a perpetual bone of contention between India and Pakistan.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;\"\u003EHowever \u0026nbsp;Kashmiris have lost all confidence in the bilateralism of India and Pakistan, \u0026nbsp; and feel that the \u0026nbsp;the seemingly intractable situation can only be moved along with the intervention of Britain and other major powers of the world persuading both countries to allow the Kashmiris to decide upon their future status as was recommended by the UNSC \u0026nbsp;and agreed upon by both India \u0026nbsp;and Pakistan.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;\"\u003EI hope therefore that you, unlike the current British government \u0026nbsp;and your predecessors in the Labour Party, will feel comfortable in engaging with the South Asian protagonists, in particular with India, that Kashmir primarily is an issue to do with the aspirations and democratic rights of the people of Jammu Kashmir \u0026nbsp;(usually refered to as Kashmir ), to determine a political \u0026nbsp;and constitutional status consistent with their inherent and inalienable right of self determination.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;\"\u003EAs you are a man of the people and as such more accessible, may I take this opportunity to request for a short meeting \u0026nbsp;with members of the Diplomatic Bureau \u0026nbsp;to further elaborate on the very brief thoughts that I have had the opportunity to explain, in what is essentially, a Letter to congratulate you on becoming Leader of the Labour Party.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;\"\u003EWith regards\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr style=\"line-height: 21.3px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;\"\u003EProf Zafar Khan\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;\"\u003E(Chair )\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2331045963852033128\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2016\/03\/the-kashmir-issue-and-labour-party.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/2331045963852033128"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/2331045963852033128"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2016\/03\/the-kashmir-issue-and-labour-party.html","title":"The  Kashmir issue and the Labour Party - Letter to Jeremy Corbyn "}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"J K L F"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17912188462951931200"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"19","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_RoCji4VwOvs\/Sg2SrdjusAI\/AAAAAAAAAKw\/t_nQV17OijM\/S220\/jklflag.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025183395565326371.post-7451239078898699311"},"published":{"$t":"2015-06-09T08:13:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-03-08T08:14:37.352-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Diplomatic"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Briefing to Foreign and Commonwealth Office-FCO in London "},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EA briefing paper discussed and presented to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office-FCO- at the meeting between the JKLF delegation and FCO officials held on 9 June 2015 at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office-FCO- in London.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003ESince June 2014 Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF- has taken a clear stance, to peacefully resist the stifling of political expression, and a growing erosion of democratic space due to policies by both the government of India and the local government \u0026nbsp;in Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EThe JKLF therefore launched a 10 day token campaign of courting arrests to fill the jails under the “Jail Bharo Tehreek” on 29 May 2015. Dozens of JKLF leaders and functionaries have been arrested including Yasin Malik the Chairman of the organisation during this period. Some have been released while the fate of others is to be decided by the Indian authorities.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003ESince coming into power as the government of India the Bharatiya Janata Party- BJP- has had a 3 point agenda to make fundamental changes to the social and political fabric of Kashmiri society.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EPart of this agenda includes the abrogation of article 370 in the Indian constitution which confers a special status to Kashmir in its relationship with India.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EOver the years India has changed many practical expressions of article 370. Nevertheless the symbolism of this article is a clear reminder that the so called accession to India of Kashmir was conditional and temporary arrangement pending a resolution of Kashmir’s final status. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EAn overwhelming popular opposition to the BJP’s agenda in Kashmir has forced it to retreat on at least abrogation of article 370. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EHowever the BJP government has instead embarked upon changing the political and social character through the back door in conjunction with its coalition partner in the Kashmir government- the Peoples Democratic Party-PDP.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EJKLF and other pro freedom organisations have resisted this and the Jail Bharo Tehreek of the JKLF is part of this peaceful opposition to the machinations of the current Indian government\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EBefore we elaborate on aspects of Indian government’s agenda to change the character of Kashmir, it’s important to put the Kashmir dispute in its proper context.\u0026nbsp; \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EA brief historic Context of the Kashmir dispute:\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EBritish India was partitioned in August 1947 with India and Pakistan emerging as the two dominant nations in South Asia.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EThere were some 560 semi-autonomous princely states among whom Jammu Kashmir (generally referred to as Kashmir) was one of the largest.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EOnce British paramountcy lapsed on them, they regained their sovereignty. The rulers of these states had the options to either accede to one of the successor states or remain independent.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EThe Maharaja of Kashmir offered a Standstill Agreement to both India and Pakistan which Pakistan accepted and as a result became responsible to deliver some public services for Kashmir. Pakistani flag therefore was hoisted on some state owned buildings such as the Post- Office as a consequence of the Standstill Agreement.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EIndia disregarded the offer of a Standstill Agreement thereby indicating an early ill intent towards the independence and sovereignty of Jammu Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EMaharaja’s dithering on the final disposition of his Kingdom exacerbated an already fraught situation among Kashmiri masses, who rose up in a popular rebellion to topple his rule. The rebels set up a provisional government on 4 October which was reconstituted on 24 October 1947 and declared Jammu Kashmir a republic. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EOn 27 October 1947 India invaded Kashmir by landing a battalion of troops in Srinagar, under the pretext that the Maharaja acceded Kashmir to India on 26 October.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EIn reality however the Maharaja was not in control of his country and was in fact fleeing from Srinagar to the city of Jammu - some 200 miles to the south.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EIt is more credible to state that a contingency plan might already have existed for the purpose of invasion under the pretext of an accession, which at any rate, under all accounts could only have been obtained well after the Indian troops landed at Srinagar airfield.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EIt seems from all accounts that India was eager to enter Kashmir come what may to throttle a freedom movement of people who endured unimaginable suffering and despotism at the hands of their rulers. India in fact landed its military in Kashmir when technically it was an independent and sovereign nation between 15 August and 27 October 1947.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EWhat is the issue?\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EAt the heart of the Kashmir conflict however lies the fundamental principle of inherent and inalienable right of around 20 million people to determine their own political and constitutional destiny.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EThe genesis of \u0026nbsp;Kashmir dispute, at least at the international level, begins with India taking the matter to the UN Security Council, which she did \u0026nbsp;on1 January 1948.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EAt the UN a number resolutions were passed, commitments and solemn undertakings were given by India and were accepted by Pakistan.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003ELeading powers like the United Kingdom supported the resolutions and the commitments to resolve the dispute in accordance with the democratic will and wishes of the people. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EFor almost 68 years the UN, India, Pakistan and indeed the permanent members of the UN Security Council, have utterly failed to honour their obligations and commitments on Kashmir’s future status.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EKashmiris rightly believe that the history of the dispute over their political and constitutional status is full of betrayals by India in particular, and indifference and abandonment of their basic rights and aspirations by the big powers including the United Kingdom. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;India for example in one of its many solemn pledges on Kashmir declared: \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E“that the question of Kashmir’s future status vis-a-vis its neighbours and the world at large and the question on whether Kashmir should withdraw from her accession to India, and either accede to Pakistan or remain independent with a right to claim admission as a member of the United Nations all this we have recognised to be a matter for unfettered decision by the people of Kashmir after normal life is restored to them”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E \u003Ci\u003EUNSC document Agenda 227.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003ESubsequent to the above pledge India was party to scores of UN resolutions, the setting up of UN Commission on India and Pakistan-UNCIP- to administer the (promised) plebiscite- the UN Military Observer Group on India and Pakistan –UNMOGIP- which was created to monitor cease-fire- line when the first Kashmir war ended between India, Pakistan and the free Kashmir forces in January 1949. Further to this the bilateral Shimla Accord was concluded by India and Pakistan after their 1971 war.\u003Cb\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003ESuccessive Indian governments have however reneged on every single international and bilateral commitment, pledge and obligation that India was party to regarding the Kashmir conflict.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003ECurrent Indian prime Minister demands a permanent seat for his country on the UN Security Council-UNSC- because India is a ‘democracy’ of 125 crores. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EHe is of course right that India is a democratic country. However India’s democratic credentials fail to meet the litmus test over Kashmir\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EContrary to its commitments before the UN on her responsibilities regarding Kashmir India’s presence in the state is that of an occupying and colonial power.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EA mature and confident expression of democracy however was witnessed by the world in September of 2014 when Britain acceded to the right of the Scottish people for a referendum to abrogate their more than 300 year -long union with the UK.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EInstead of dispatching battalions of British troops to supress nationalist aspirations of the Scots, British government graciously facilitated a free, fair and democratic referendum to settle the question the union with the UK. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EIndia on the other hand does not even acknowledge the existence of a Kashmir issue and considers the dispute over its future status as a figment and machinations of Pakistan, and quite blatantly claims Kashmir as an ‘integral’ part of India.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003ESuch a position by India is clearly a betrayal of the UN and India’s responsibilities and obligations over Kashmir. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EPakistan too considers the Kashmir issue and the dispute as the ‘unfinished agenda’ of the partition of British India. It therefore becomes all the more important that the dispute is resolved in accordance with the democratic will and fundamental rights of the people.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003ECurrent Situation:\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003ESince 2014 India has a Bharatiya Janata Party- BJP- government which is aggressive and chauvinistic in its political ideology. BJP led Indian government \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;has orchestrated to subvert the socio-political character of Kashmir with Hindutva inspired objectives to affect change in Indian occupied part of the state.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EThis includes among other objectives of the Indian government, to dilute collective identity, and disrupt centuries old communal harmony of a religiously diverse polity, especially in the Jammu province of the state. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EHaving failed to abrogate article 370, the Indian government began to communalise the political process during the state elections late last year.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EIn Jammu at least the BJP succeeded in communal divide and increased its seats from 11 to 25, while not making any headway in the valley of Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EDuring his first five months in power as Prime Minister of India Mr Narendra Modi made 8 visits to Jammu Kashmir with the clear objective of exerting maximum influence over the state elections. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EMost of his 8 visits were in the non-Muslim dominated regions of the state and to the Indian troops deployed on the LoC including the Siachen Glacier.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EIn the election process those opposed to the electoral process within the Indian constitution led by the JKLF were not allowed to use the public square, and were not allowed the democratic right of assembly and free speech to advocate their policies. Yasin Malik and other JKLF leaders were incarcerated throughout the 7 week election process.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EThe unholy alliance between PDP and the BJP after the state elections, has further exacerbated the political atmosphere in Jammu Kashmir. Their coalition government has stifled and choked political and democratic expression.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EJKLF’s non-violent and peaceful campaign- Jehed-e- Mussalsal, the signature campaign and people contact met with a heavy handed response from the authorities.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EDuring elections for the Kashmir assembly in the winter of 2014 at least 25 to 30 constituencies in the state, mostly in the valley of Kashmir were under extreme military and paramilitary pressure and oppressive methods.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EThis heavy deployment of forces amounted to an atmosphere of political, physical and psychological suffocation and harassment of the masses.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EJKLF embarked upon a peaceful and non-violent campaign to engage with the masses to relieve them of this atmosphere of suffocation, fear and anxiety.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EThe JKLF envisaged setting up of a week-long camps in each of the constituencies to extend support and solidarity to all sections of the beleaguered communities.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EPre-emptive arrests of the JKLF leaders and activists were made to prevent their interaction with the people in Rypura one of the constituencies in district Pulwama.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EYasin Malik, the JKLF Chairman was also arrested and later released when he led a procession towards Rypura in solidarity.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EThe Jail Bharo Tehreek therefore was started as 10 day symbolic protest against these oppressive and anti-democratic methods of the Indian forces and the local PDP and BJP led coalition government in Kashmir. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EWhile this 10 day symbolic campaign ended on 6 June 2015 the JKLF awaits the fate of over 200 of its leaders who are in custody before the next phase and course of action for the peaceful Jehed-e- Mussalsal is restarted.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EAlthough the BJP has failed to abrogate article 370, it has however not refrained from communalising of the Kashmir society by attempting to change the demographics of the state both in the Jammu as well as in the Kashmir Valley provinces.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EGranting of state subject to 1947 refugees from West Pakistan:\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EThe integration and granting of state subject or citizenship to 1947 refugees from West Pakistan who now live in Jammu.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EThese refugees have right to vote in the Indian parliamentary elections. They do not have rights to vote in the Jammu Kashmir assembly elections.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EBy granting them state subject status, the BJP government wishes to change the demographic makeup of the region and the Jammu Kashmir state.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EResettlement of the Pundits:\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EKashmiri Pandits were taken out of the Kashmir valley in 1990. Many live in camps in Jammu while many others live in Delhi as well as other parts of India.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EThe Indian government wants to resettle the Pandits in Israeli style settlements in at least four to five places in the valley of Kashmir.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EFive hundred acres of land has been acquired for the purpose. There is strong opposition across all sections of Kashmiri society for creating separate enclaves and colonies for the Pandits. General Kashmiri public wishes The Pandits to return to their own homes and neighbourhoods in the valley which they left in 1990.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EAround four to five hundred families of the Pandits have returned to their homes mainly in the Srinagar areas through the efforts of the efforts of Kashmiris including the JKLF.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EKashmiris in general and the JKLF in particular argue that security and wellbeing of the Kashmiri Pandits lies within their fellow Kashmiri citizens rather than in separate settlements and Indian forces.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EGranting of state subject to West Pakistan refugees and creating separate enclaves and settlements in the names of the Pandits is a conspiracy to change the character and demographic makeup of the state of Jammu Kashmir which JKLF and other Kashmir political organisations will resists peacefully.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EKashmiris across both sides of the Line of Control-LoC want a peaceful resolution of the Kashmir dispute, and want Kashmir to become a bridge of peace between India and Pakistan rather than a bone of contention.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EKashmiris on both sides of the LoC wish for a constructive engagement and dialogue among the concerned parties- namely India, Pakistan and Kashmiris.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EThus far Indian Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi’s BJP government has shown no desire for dialogue with Pakistan let alone recognising his country’s commitments at the United Nations.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EBritain has a privileged position in world affairs and Kashmiris have a high expectation of Britain’s role to influence a change of pace towards a lasting solution of the Kashmir dispute.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EBritain has friendly relations and vital interests with both India and Pakistan, as well as strong historic ties with the region.\u0026nbsp; With such vital interests at stake Britain cannot afford to leave India and Pakistan to sort the Kashmir dispute on their own. They have not been able to do so for 68 years.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EUnresolved Kashmir dispute has dislocated the Kashmiris but it also has held back two very important world powers in their progress.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EProf Zafar Khan\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EHead of Diplomatic Bureau\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EJammu Kashmir liberation Front-JKLF-\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003ELondon Secretariat. North Basement\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E119-123 Cannon Street Road\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003ELondon E1 2LX\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E                                                                                                                                                                       \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EEmail: \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:zafargk@aol.com\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003Ezafargk@aol.com\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7451239078898699311\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2015\/06\/briefing-to-foreign-and-commonwealth.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/7451239078898699311"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6025183395565326371\/posts\/default\/7451239078898699311"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/jklfworld.blogspot.com\/2015\/06\/briefing-to-foreign-and-commonwealth.html","title":"Briefing to Foreign and Commonwealth Office-FCO in London "}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"J K L F"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17912188462951931200"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"19","src":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_RoCji4VwOvs\/Sg2SrdjusAI\/AAAAAAAAAKw\/t_nQV17OijM\/S220\/jklflag.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025183395565326371.post-6339386918995734827"},"published":{"$t":"2014-12-25T09:12:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-03-08T09:13:56.627-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Diplomatic"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"News"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Elections in Indian held Kashmir and detention of JKLF Chairman Yasin Malik –a serious question mark on Indian democracy."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003EElections in Indian held Kashmir and detention of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF- Chairman Yasin Malik –a serious question mark on Indian democracy.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;Luton- UK: 25 Dec.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EA meeting of solidarity with the JKLF and its Chairman Mr Yasin Malik was held here on 24 December in support of the anti-election stance of the JKLF and its Chairman in Indian held Kashmir. \u0026nbsp;JKLF Chairman went on a hunger strike three days prior to his release between the early hours of December 23 and December 24, in protest at the repressive and vindictive actions of Indian authorities against JKLF activists and their families, relatives and friends in Srinagar especially in Maisooma\u0026nbsp; and neighbourhoods where\u0026nbsp; total boycott of the polls took place.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003ESpeaking at the meeting \u0026nbsp;JKLF’s head of \u0026nbsp;Diplomatic Bureau Prof Zafar Khan strongly condemned Indian authorities for\u0026nbsp; keeping JKLF Chairman Mr Yasin Malik incarcerated for almost two months during the entire duration of the\u0026nbsp; election period in Indian held Jammu Kashmir. He called Indian actions undemocratic, inhuman and callous, and urged the International community and humanitarian organisations including those in India, to take serious note of the undemocratic and inhuman behaviour of India’s State apparatus in Indian held Jammu Kashmir. He accused the Indian government of Narendra Modi of showing utter disregard and contempt by violating the most sacred and fundamental democratic principles of political rights and freedom of speech during the elections.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EQuite clearly Mr Yasin Malik and his party the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF were denied both of these basic principles and rights as a result of Mr Malik’s incarceration and oppressive actions against the JKLF activists during and after the election process. He reminded the meeting that Mr Yasin Malik opposed the elections in Kashmir within the framework of Indian constitution, which he and the JKLF does not recognise as an alternative to Kashmiris’ right of self-determination, and reunification of forcibly divided Jammu Kashmir between India and Pakistan since.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EHe said that the concerted and orchestrated campaign, the repressive and undemocratic actions by the Indian government can only be described as a desperate attempt to silence the JKLF and deprive Kashmiri masses of a genuine and representative voice. He accused Indian authorities of being extremely indifferent, negligent and callous toward Mr Malik’s medical condition during his 7 week incarceration by shifting him from hospital to prison cell, especially since he has a long standing kidney ailment that requires regular medical care and treatment. \u0026nbsp;He said the authorities’ inattentive attitude to Mr Malik’s health needs during his hunger strike in particular, has caused\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; resentment and anger within Kashmiris across both sides of the Cease-Fire Line in Kashmir and throughout the Kashmiri Diaspora.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;Referring to the\u0026nbsp; post-election situation in Indian held Kashmir Zafar Khan said\u0026nbsp; despite visiting Jammu Kashmir eight times in \u0026nbsp;his six month tenure as Prime Minister of India, Mr \u0026nbsp;Modi has not only failed to obtain the desired results in Jammu Kashmir, he has further fanned the flames and heightened the passions for a permanent solution of Kashmir dispute. The election results have created a climate of uncertainty and an inevitable political stalemate. Zafar Khan called this state of affairs a consequence of communal political agenda which the Bharatiya Janata Party-the BJP-under Mr Modi pursued particularly in the Jammu region Kashmir. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EHowever he said despite BJP’s communal manoeuvring to further its Hindutva and Akhand Bharat philosophy, people of Jammu Kashmir have clearly not gone along with Mr Modi’s government. But he raised a note of caution in particular to people of Jammu region to resist communally divisive and assimilationist political agenda of the BJP in respect of the identity, solidarity and ultimate unity of the entire state, including regions of Azad Jammu Kashmir- Gilgit Baltistan, and pointed out that this identity and solidarity needed to be jealously guarded and protected against forces of communal and ethnic divisions.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EHe said Mr Malik and his party seek a peaceful and democratic solution of Kashmir dispute and said we have intimated this to major powers including the UK, the USA and all the UN member countries including the members of the UN Security Council prior to, and during the current election in Indian Held Kashmir. He said we hope and anticipate that the world community will stand up and take note of double standards of Indian democracy in relation to Jammu Kashmir, and cited the example of the Scottish referendum in which people of Scotland were allowed their democratic right to decide whether they wished Scotland to remain as part of the United Kingdom or become an independent country. He said Mr Narendra Modi has embarked upon a vendetta against the JKLF and its leadership. India claims to be a strong democracy and yet it \u0026nbsp;prevented Mr \u0026nbsp;Malik and his party from \u0026nbsp;campaigning against the\u0026nbsp; election in Jammu Kashmir \u0026nbsp;and prevented him from a direct contact with the people\u0026nbsp; by keeping him and many of his colleagues behind bars during the election.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EZafar Khan concluded by reminding the Major Powers that like twenty million people of forcibly divided Jammu Kashmir Mr Yasin Malik also seeks to decide a political and constitutional status of his mother land through a fair, free, transparent and democratic process as was exercised by the Scottish people; and said that \u0026nbsp;the presence of seven hundred thousand military and security personnel as well as the overwhelming physical influence of the Indian State apparatus in Jammu Kashmir, election process of the kind that has just been concluded is not an alternative to a lasting and just solution of the Kashmir issue. End.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;========= \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EMahmud Hussain\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EJammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF-\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003EDiplomatic Bureau\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003ELondon Secretariat\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;,serif;\"\u003E119-123\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; 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, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{155}\" paraid=\"490650446\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; margin-left: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003ESub: Quest for a peaceful and democratic solution of the Kashmir issue; a sincere and humble appeal\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003Efor support.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"EOP SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{158}\" paraid=\"1674498882\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; margin-left: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"SpellingError SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; background-image: url(\u0026quot;data:image\/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{158}\" paraid=\"1674498882\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; margin-left: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"SpellingError SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; background-image: url(\u0026quot;data:image\/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EExcellency\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;through you, we solicit your Government’s valuable support and constructive intercession for a peaceful and democratic solution of the long standing unresolved conflict in Jammu Kashmir- commonly referred to as Kashmir between India, Pakistan and the 20 million people of Kashmir.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"EOP SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{161}\" paraid=\"759263067\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; margin-left: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EWe are confident that your Government will not hesitate to exert and assert its powerful voice in search for a just peaceful resolution of the conflict and for this noble objective, will forth-rightly engage within relevant international fora and, indeed directly with the Governments of India and Pakistan. Furthermore, we take this opportunity to seek your support for our inherent, inalienable and internationally\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"SpellingError SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; background-image: url(\u0026quot;data:image\/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003Erecognised\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;right to self-determination and a democratically arrived at political status of a reunified Jammu and Kashmir of our democratic choice.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"EOP SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{164}\" paraid=\"498441456\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; margin-left: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{164}\" paraid=\"498441456\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; margin-left: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003EWe strongly reiterate that Kashmir issue should not be seen as a dispute merely between India and Pakistan as over the years it has quite erroneously come to be seen. People of Kashmir have been rendered invisible in this Indo- Pakistan dimension over the issue.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"EOP SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{164}\" paraid=\"498441456\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; margin-left: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"EOP SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{167}\" paraid=\"456765507\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; margin-left: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;Whatever the claims and counter claims, and the entrenched positions of both countries, the solution of the issue in our considered view remains vested in the democratic will of 20 million\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"SpellingError SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; background-image: url(\u0026quot;data:image\/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EKashmiris.\u0026nbsp; The\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;locus of Kashmiris in the future status of the forcibly divided Jammu Kashmir has not only been\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"SpellingError SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; background-image: url(\u0026quot;data:image\/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003Erecognised\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;by the United Nations but also by India itself.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"EOP SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{174}\" paraid=\"1367052517\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; margin-left: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{174}\" paraid=\"1367052517\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; margin-left: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003EAn\u0026nbsp; example of\u0026nbsp; such Indian recognition\u0026nbsp; is cited herein\u0026nbsp; regarding just one of the many solemn\u0026nbsp; pledges\u0026nbsp; that\u0026nbsp; India made\u0026nbsp; on the question of Kashmir’s future political status when on 1\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: super;\"\u003Est\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;January 1948\u0026nbsp; she\u0026nbsp; took the matter to the United nations and declared:\u0026nbsp; “ that the question of Kashmir’s future status vis-a vis its\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"SpellingError SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; background-image: url(\u0026quot;data:image\/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003Eneighbours\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;and the world at large and the question on whether Kashmir should withdraw from her accession to India, and either accede to Pakistan or remain independent with a right to claim admission as a member of the UN all this we have\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"SpellingError SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; background-image: url(\u0026quot;data:image\/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003Erecognised\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;to be a matter for unfettered decision by the people of Kashmir after normal life is restored to them\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E”\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003EUNSC document Agenda 227.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"EOP SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;calibri\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{177}\" paraid=\"46348657\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; margin-left: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{177}\" paraid=\"46348657\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; margin-left: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EUnfortunately however India no longer cares for the commitments and pledges that she made in respect of Kashmir’s future political dispensation both to Kashmiris and to the world community at the United\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"SpellingError SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; background-image: url(\u0026quot;data:image\/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003ENations.\u0026nbsp; Successive\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;Indian Governments have not only\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; reneged on these pledges, India today refuses even to\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"SpellingError SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; background-image: url(\u0026quot;data:image\/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003Erecognise\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;that a popular struggle for justice, democracy and freedom prevails in Kashmir. Instead the genuine popular sentiments and aspirations of Kashmiris to exercise their free will and reunification of the forcibly divided Kashmir are associated with the so- called ‘proxy’ war, extremism or terrorism. Nothing can be further from the reality.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"EOP SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{182}\" paraid=\"1272073094\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; margin-left: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{182}\" paraid=\"1272073094\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; margin-left: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003EThe truth however is that we seek peacefully to reunify our forcibly divided country- which is de-facto under Indian and Pakistani control- and ensure that instead of being a perpetual bone of contention, Kashmir becomes a\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003Ebridge of peace between India and Pakistan\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"EOP SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{185}\" paraid=\"250330658\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; margin-left: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{185}\" paraid=\"250330658\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; margin-left: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EAt present Kashmiri is one of the most\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"SpellingError SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; background-image: url(\u0026quot;data:image\/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003Emilitarised\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;regions of the world. India alone has over half a million regular military personnel deployed along the Line of Control-LoC- across\u0026nbsp; backed up by tens of thousands of paramilitary forces which are\u0026nbsp; stationed in cities and towns rural\u0026nbsp; areas of Indian occupied part of\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"EOP SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{188}\" paraid=\"1496690286\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; margin-right: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"background-color: transparent; font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{188}\" paraid=\"1496690286\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; margin-right: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"background-color: transparent; font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EKashmir. Pakistan too has heavy deployment of its troops on the LoC The\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"SpellingError SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; background-image: url(\u0026quot;data:image\/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003Eeye-ball\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;to\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"SpellingError SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; background-image: url(\u0026quot;data:image\/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003Eeye-ball\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;deployment of huge number of forces of both countries antagonistic to each other has made it impossible for ordinary Kashmiris on both sides of the LoC to lead normal life. They face daily dangers to life, limb and property as flare ups between the opposing forces are a daily occurrence.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"EOP SCX126977861\" style=\"background-color: transparent; font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{194}\" paraid=\"1640452077\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; margin-left: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003EAs both countries are nuclear powers such aggressive deployment and an absence of a viable and just solution of the Kashmir issue renders the situation fraught with incalculable and catastrophic consequences even to contemplate not only for South Asia but for the entire world.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"EOP SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{197}\" paraid=\"260047594\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; margin-left: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{197}\" paraid=\"260047594\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; margin-left: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003ETens of thousands of Kashmiri families remain divided and are unable to meet each-other in times of grief and joy. Those who are lucky enough to obtain visas have to navigate unfathomable\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"SpellingError SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; background-image: url(\u0026quot;data:image\/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003Ebeauracratic\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;hurdles on both sides. This is a state of affairs that should not and must not prevail in a modern world of 2014 and, would not be accepted or tolerated anywhere else. This is exactly why the ‘Iron Curtain’ collapsed in the west. We seek the same through peaceful exercise of our right of self-determination regarding the Line of Control.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"EOP SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{200}\" paraid=\"510528782\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; margin-left: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{200}\" paraid=\"510528782\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; margin-left: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003ELeadership of the JKLF is totally committed to making Kashmir a bridge of peace between India and Pakistan as a considered party policy and a long standing national objective. We believe that a free and sovereign Kashmir will truly become a peaceful bridge between India and Pakistan and is the vital proverbial key that unlocks the tremendous potential of both countries for the region and the world. Twenty million people of forcibly divided Jammu Kashmir will also reap the dividends of such a peace and prosperity.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"EOP SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{203}\" paraid=\"1638063000\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; margin-left: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{203}\" paraid=\"1638063000\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; margin-left: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EExcellency we seek your government’s active support for our peaceful struggle in unlocking this potential for\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"SpellingError SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; background-image: url(\u0026quot;data:image\/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EIndia , Pakistan\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E, Kashmiris and the rest of the world. We anticipate and indeed seek your vitally\u0026nbsp; important role in persuading the concerned parties and in particular Indian Government to seek a people centric solution in Kashmir through the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"SpellingError SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; background-image: url(\u0026quot;data:image\/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003Egood will\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;of the international community and many friends of both India and\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"SpellingError SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; background-image: url(\u0026quot;data:image\/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003EPakistan,\u0026nbsp; and\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;through a frank and objective interaction and negotiation process with Pakistan and the people of Kashmir.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"EOP SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{206}\" paraid=\"84571483\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; margin-left: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{206}\" paraid=\"84571483\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; margin-left: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003EWe further hope that you will support us in our efforts to maintain interaction with you on matters of mutual interest for furtherance of peaceful resolution of the Kashmir conflict.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"EOP SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{209}\" paraid=\"315373463\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; height: auto; margin-left: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; width: auto; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{209}\" paraid=\"315373463\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; height: auto; margin-left: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; width: auto; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003EIn this regard we would appreciate it very much if your excellency would accede to our humble request for a meeting to further elaborate on our approach to a peaceful resolution of the Kashmir issue and that, - in near future your excellency or appropriate members of your mission will participate in our seminar\/ workshops on finding a way forward to lasting and equitable peaceful resolution of Kashmir issue and peace and prosperity for South Asia.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"EOP SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{212}\" paraid=\"1879443329\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; margin-left: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003EWith Anticipation and warm regards\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"EOP SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{215}\" paraid=\"424953871\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"EOP SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{219}\" paraid=\"966992376\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; margin-left: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003EProf. Zafar Khan\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"EOP SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; 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, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003EChairman Diplomatic Bureau\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"EOP SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{225}\" paraid=\"628089463\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; margin-left: -1px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003EJammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF-\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"EOP SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"Paragraph SCX126977861\" paraeid=\"{b780fd6e-b123-48ec-a454-76cf4db692e7}{228}\" paraid=\"702729894\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; font-size: 6pt; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"TextRun SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"EOP SCX126977861\" style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCX126977861\" style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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