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Islamabad: September 04, 2009:
Dr. Syed Toqeer Geelani has been appointed as Publicity Secretary of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front –JKLF- for next tenure of 4 Years. This appointment was made by Supreme Head of JKLF Mr. Amanullah Khan using his special powers given to him by Central Executive Committee (CEC) of JKLF. Chairman of JKLF administered the oath to Mr. Geelani in a function held today in Rawalpindi. Among others, Mr. Amanullah Khan and a number of JKLF and SLF members including Ex. Chairman JKSLF Raja Mazhar Iqbal Adv., Chairman JKSLF Raja Ghulam Mujtaba, Secretary Finance JKLF Manzoor Ahmed Khan, President JKLF District Poonch Sardar Hamid Khan, Waheed Azam Chaudry, Taimur Hussain Chughtai and Asif Mughal were also present there.

Dr. Toqeer Geelani has also been Chairman of Students wing of JKLF and Chairman of Muthida Talba Mahaz Azad Kashmir (MTM), an umbrella organisation of student’s groups in Azad Kashmir.

Speaking on the occasion, Toqeer Geelani said that he will try his level best to perform his duty to strengthen the ideology of JKLF. He further said JKLF has a very important role to play especially in the unfolding events of Gilgit-Baltistan.


Manzoor Ahmed Khan
For
Publicity Secretary, JKLF

JKLF Central Executive Committee meeting was held in Rawalpindi today (4th Sep. 2009) Following is the press release issued after the meeting and RESOLUTIONS adopted by the CEC. Click here to read the english version of this press release

Islamabad, 4 September 2009:

The Gilgit Baltistan Package presented by Government of Pakistan on 29th of August 2009 has been forthrightly rejected by Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF). JKLF Demands to unite Gilgit Baltistan and Azad Kashmir as a sovereign and democratic state. The sovereign State will be headed by a revolutionary government having two autonomous Provinces Azad Kashmir and Gilgit. The government will represent and expedite the people’s freedom movement on both national and international level. JKLF also put forward a temporary option to form a government in Gilgit Baltistan having an elected president, Prime Minister, Supreme Court and Independent election Commission. This government by virtue of its nature will be more democratic than the existing Puppet Government of Azad Jammu Kashmir.

JKLF accuses the Government of Pakistan that their proposed Gilgit Baltistan package is merely entangling the people of Gilgit Baltistan in a knot of deceptive words. The Govt. of Pakistan is filling a new bottle with old wine pushing a failed formula under a new flashy disguise.

Under this package the people of Gilgit will suffer mass populace enslavement under an imposed governor, similar to the viceroy of the British Raj in the subcontinent. This would become the worst form of colonization in present day.

This package inflicts a severe wound upon Kashmir’s Freedom Movement. In fact this makes Pakistan Govt. at par with Indian Government. This hideous conspiracy is an off-shoot of Gen (R) Pervez Musharraf’s four point agenda and back channel diplomacy which is completely un-acceptable by the people of Jammu Kashmir.

“JKLF and the people of Kashmir would resist and fight against all conspiracies till the end”. This announcement was made by chairman Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) during a press conference here at National Press Club Islamabad.

JKLF announced to launch a nationwide mass mobilization campaign. This campaign will systematically expose all the conspiracies and prepare the masses to take things into their own hands, retaliate and defeat all conspiracies.
JKLF is preparing a platform to re-unite the people of Indian held Jammu Kashmir, Azad Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan.

JKLF Mass Mobilization campaign is into four phases.

Phase 1:- On the 11th of September 2009 JKLF will organize protest demonstrations and rallies throughout Azad Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan against giving Gilgit Baltistan defecto provincial Status.

Phase 2:- JKLF will meet different political and social organizations and conduct seminars and press conferences in Azad Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan and Pakistan.

Phase 3:- JKLF will stage protest rallies in front of Pakistani diplomatic missions in London, New York, Brussels, Hong Kong and Madrid.

Phase 4:- JKLF, on 22nd of October, will conduct a long march towards parliament house Islamabad and a sit in demonstration demanding the following;

1. The cancellation of the 28th April 1949 Karachi agreement.
2. The cancellation of interim constitutional act. 1974 of AJK.
3. The cancellation of 29th August 2009, Gilgit Baltistan package.
4. Re-unification of Gilgit Baltistan and Azad Kashmir as a democratic and sovereign State.


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RAJA GHULAM MUJTABA
Chairman JKSLF
Office: +92-51-4425689
Fax: +92-51-4450414
Mobile: +92-333-5758417

Gilgit-Baltistan is an integral part of Jammu Kashmir State and the autonomous package declared by Pakistan government for Gilggit-Baltistan is a first step to make it country’s fifth province. This is contrary to UN resolutions on Kashmir issue and against the Pakistan’s own constitution.

In a statement issued from Srinagar, Senior Vice Chairman of JKLF SM Afzal said that despite differences, all the political parties in Kashmir unanimously agree that division of Kashmir will not be accepted. He said that Pakistan should refrain from taking such steps that will damage the freedom struggle in Kashmir. SM Afzal further said that Pakistan and Kashmir should stop treating over 17 million Kashmiris as dumb-driven cattle.

JKLF also appealed the people of India and Pakistan not to let a solution not based on the freely expressed will of the people of entire Jammu Kashmir State be imposed on the Kashmiris

Andleeb Kashmiri
Spokesman,
Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF)
Sun Head Office, Srinagar