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Letter to Pakistan High Commission by JKLF diplomatic Committee
His
Excellency Syed Ibne Abbas
Pakistan
High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
34-36
Lowndes Square
London SW1X 9NJ
18
January 2016
Subject: To seek an urgent meeting with H.E
Pakistan High Commissioner in the UK, on Pakistan government’s intention to
change status of Gilgit Baltistan by
making the region a province of Pakistan.
Dear 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.
The
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.
The
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:
a)
Either
Gilgit Baltistan and Azad Jammu Kashmir-AJK- are merged together to form a
national government of the two regions of Pakistan administered Kashmir:
b)
Or
Gilgit Baltistan is allowed to form similar political structures of government
and governance as currently exist in AJK.
The
APC further resolved that Gilgit Baltistan and AJK must be allowed to control
all their natural and economic resources.
The
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.
Yours
Sincerely
Professor Zafar Khan
Participating Parties in the APC:
MC,
JKLF, AJKPP, PPP, PTI, PMLN, JKNAP, Tehrek-e- Kashmir, and Building Bridges.
Address
for communication
53
Clarendon Rd Luton LU2 7PJ
Thursday, 14 January 2016
Making Gilgit Baltistan as Province of Pakistan will have serious consequences on the issue of Jammu Kashmir dispute
(London, 14 January
2016)
London branch of
Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) has condemned the move by the
Pakistani authorities to make Gilgit Baltistan as a constitutional province of
Pakistan.
In a statement issued
after the meeting of JKLF London Branch, it said that making Gilgit Baltistan
as constitutional province of Pakistan will have serious consequences on
the long standing issue of Jammu Kashmir dispute. Statement said that such move
by Pakistan has no legal, political, official or moral justification
whatsoever. By taking this illegal and unjust step, Kashmiris are being forced
to consider Pakistan in par with India.
JKLF and people
of Kashmir will strongly oppose and resist conspiracies
against the sacred cause of freedom and the fundamental rights of the people
from all parts of forcibly divided state of Jammu Kashmir of which
Gilgit-Baltistan is an integral part till the end.
The meeting was
attended by President of JKLF London Branch Sanawar Hussain, General Secretary
Mahmood Faiz, Mahmood Hussain, Javaid Rashid, Tariq Sharif, Nazakat Ali,
Iftikhar Sharif, Usman Sharif and other office bearers of JKLF London
branch.
Iftikhar Sharif
Press Secretary,
JKLF London Branch
Friday, 1 January 2016
JKLF Press Conferene in London
Jammu Kashmir
Liberation Front’s statement issued to press and media at its London Secretariat
on the arrest and judicial remand of JKLF Chairman Mr Yasin Malik along with
his senior colleagues, under section 307 of the IPC, in Indian occupied Jammu
Kashmir.
London, 31 December 2015:
1: Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF-
strongly condemns the arrests and charges of ‘attempt to murder and waging of
war against the Indian state,’ on its Chairman Mr Yasin Malik and other senior
JKLF leaders. Mr Malik along with his colleagues was remanded in judicial
custody for 10 days and shifted to Srinagar central jail on 27 December 2015.
We demand an immediate release of Mr
Yasin Malik and his colleagues who include, Vice Chairman Mr Shaukat Ahmed Bakhshi,
Zonal President Mr Noor Muhammad Kalwal,
Zonal General Secretary Sheikh Abdul Rashid, Zonal organiser Mr Bashir
Kashmiri, Mr Ghulam Muhammad Dar, Mr Nazir Ahmed Rather, Mr Ashraf Hussain and
Mr Munib Javid Khan. We demand that all charges are dropped against the JKLF
leaders.
2: Mr Malik and his colleagues were
initially arrested on 25 December 2015 when the JKLF Chairman was leading a
peaceful protest demonstration against the violence and terror perpetrated by
the ‘Village Defence Committee. The VDC specifically operate in the Jammu
province in the Muslim populated areas. JKLF has taken a strong position against
the anti-people activities, violence and terrorism of the VDC.
3: During the JKLF protest rally on
25 December 2015, police resorted to heavy handed force by using pepper guns
and tear gas on peaceful demonstration. The police also targeted hundreds of
worshippers at Friday prayers in the nearby two large mosques- the Jamia
ahle-hadis and the haji mosque- injuring many people.
4: The VDC enjoy full support and
patronage of the Indian government and the military as part of the ‘civil
defence force’. Since 1995 the VDC have committed thousands of violent acts,
rapes and lootings in the Jammu province.
5: This state supported terrorist
set up has over 2,000 FIRs lodged against it over the past twenty years, and
not a single case has been investigated by the Indian state and its local quislings
against this so called civil defence force.
6: The VDC with RSS connections operate
in all the districts of Jammu with substantial Muslim population, and commit
acts of murder and arson in these areas with impunity. They have committed acts
of violence against drivers with fatal results and set their vehicles on fire
over the past few months.
7: They killed a mother and her
small son in the Budal area of Rajauri district, and continue to harass
families in the region. The 25 December 2015 rally led by Mr Malik was taken
out specifically against the mother and son murder in Budal.
8: The terror of hired VCD killers
and terrorists is, over and above the unabated violence perpetrated by 700,000
Indian military and para military forces deployed in Kashmir. This
unprecedented militarisation of the territory by India, has resulted in tens of
thousands of civilian deaths since 1988. Thousands of people are missing. There
are hundreds of unmarked graves all over Indian occupied Kashmir of victims of
extra judicial killings and faked encounters.
9: There are over 7,000 unmarked mass graves and
over 8,000 disappeared persons in Kashmir today. The association of Parents of Disappeared
Persons –APDP- continues to demand answers about their loved ones who were
picked up by the occupation authorities and have since vanished from the face
of the earth!
The International Peoples Tribunal
on Human rights and Justice in Kashmir-IPTK- in its 2009 report entitled
“Buried Evidence” accounted for almost 3,000 bodies in 2,700 graves, just in
the districts of Badndipura, Baramulla and Kupwara alone.
10: This long and continuing pain
and agony of Kashmiri people is a consequence of Indian occupation. JKLF
Chairman has exposed the reality of the brute face of military occupation and the
ugly face of Indian democracy in Kashmir
11: The trumped up charges slapped
on Mr Malik and his 8 colleagues are not a coincidence. They are part of
India’s vindictive and malicious actions, to malign the peaceful, popular and
democratic freedom struggle and deny the JKLF, political space and engagement with
Kashmiri masses.
12: These concocted charges are
preposterous, and are part of a deliberate and pernicious strategy of the Indian
occupation apparatus and its quislings in Kashmir, to silence Mr Yasin Malik
who is a towering figure, for the pro freedom and anti-status quo political
struggle in Jammu Kashmir.
13: In the light of current
rapprochement between India and Pakistan, the nature of these charges against the
JKLF leadership, is a clear indication that the Will of Kashmiri people and
their sentiment, has no place in bilateral framework of proposed Indo- Pak “Bilateral
Comprehensive Dialogue” process.
14: We unambiguously and unequivocally,
make it clear that Kashmiris will not accept Indo- Pak bilateralism over the
future status of their country, as it is not a territorial dispute between
India and Pakistan.
15: The future political status of Jammu
Kashmir is an internationally recognised issue, whose political and
constitutional status can only be decided through an unfettered democratic
decision by twenty million Kashmiris as they are the main affected party in the
dispute.
16: It is quite ironic therefore that
the charge of ‘waging war against the Indian state’ has been levelled against
Mr Yasin Malik. In reality however it is the Indian state that continues to
wage war on the people of Jammu Kashmir.
17: Mr Malik on the other hand has
struggled for the rights, aspirations and dignity of his people through
peaceful means.
18:
Mr Malik renounced all forms of violence in the Kashmiris’ struggle for self-determination
more than twenty years ago. Therefore no amount of state harassment and
oppression will deter the JKLF leadership from representing the genuine
sentiments for freedom, dignity and the exercise of the unfettered democratic Will
of Kashmiris, across both sides of the Line of Control-LoC-.
19: Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front
will mount a vigorous and concerted campaign at political and democratic level
throughout the world to expose the oppression and brutality of the Indian
occupation in Jammu Kashmir and the repressive and draconian methods with which
the JKLF and its leadership has been subjected to over the years, and in
particular the current incarceration of Mr Yasin Malik and his colleagues under
section 307 of the IPC
20: Throughout the world JKLF local
organisations and branches have been informed and asked to undertake
appropriate and suitable political and diplomatic campaigns and high light the
nefarious actions being taken by the Indian government through its quisling
administration Kashmir.
21:
In the UK where around a million Kashmiris reside, and who are quite
well embedded within the British
political system, British Chapter of the
JKLF has been asked to mount a concerted incremental political campaign, and
also assist and contribute towards
diplomatic efforts for an immediate release of the JKLF leadership. Similarly
Europe and North America based organisation will engage with the local
political and diplomatic fraternity, and press and media to gain support for
the immediate release of Mr Malik and his colleagues.
22: The nature and method of
campaigning will be decided by branches and the zonal organisations based on
their situation and circumstances both in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. Paramount
objective however, will be to ensure that no one misjudges or misreads the determination
and the desire of 20 million Kashmiris for freedom, and to assert their
absolute right to decide on the political and constitutional status and
reunification of their country-Jammu Kashmir- peacefully.
Prof
Zafar Khan
(Chairman)
JKLF Diplomatic Bureau
119-123 Cannon Street Road,
(Basement North)
London
E1 2LX
(Chairman)
JKLF Diplomatic Bureau
119-123 Cannon Street Road,
(Basement North)
London
E1 2LX
………………End………………….
Tuesday, 29 December 2015
JKLF will hold an important press conference at its London Secretariat on Thursday 31st December 2015 at 12 noon.
London (29 December 2015)
JKLF will hold an important press conference at its London Secretariat on Thursday 31st December 2015 at 12 noon.
The address of the secretariat is
JKLF Diplomatic Bureau
119-123 Cannon Street Road,
Basement North
London
E1 2LX
The 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.
The 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.
On 27th December Mr Malik and other senior JKLF leaders were charged and remanded in judicial custody at the Srinagar central jail for 10 days.
It 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 Muslim population in general and 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.
At 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.
Members of the Press and media are therefore cordially invited to attend this important press conference.
Thanking you in anticipation.
For and on behalf of the JKLF
Diplomatic Bureau
Mahmud Hussain
07956400834
Wednesday, 23 December 2015
World Silence on Kashmir -- Letter for Publication
UN Human rights day was observed
on December 10. Once again seminars and lectures were delivered on this issue,
articles appeared in the media, highlighting the importance of human rights.
We read and hear of this
year after year, and it is stressed that no-one should be denied basic human
rights in any circumstances.
Western nations always advocate
the importance of human rights and express their displeasure against regimes
who violate these rights.
But, they keep quiet as far as
the human rights are concerned in Kashmir?
The Kashmir people are not only
deprived of their basic human rights, but are mercilessly annihilated. The laws
are imposed depriving people of every basic human rights. People including
women and children, are shot at, killed and houses searched without warrant.
The army has been given unlimited power, and are free of any kind of
persecution.
Amnesty international in its
report confirmed thousands of un-marked graves.
The international community knows
and understands everything, but is keeping criminally silent, only because of
its trade economic ties.
The state- sponsored systemic
killings is fully operational in Kashmir. The only crime of the poor
defenseless is that they are asking for their right of self-determination. A
right which was recognized by both India, Pakistan and International community,
including United Nations.
It is high time that the people
of the world use their voice against this injustice and against the violation
of the sanctity of human rights.
Mahmood Hussain
JKLF (Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front)
London Secretariat
119-123 Cannon street Road (Basement North)
London E1 2LX
07956 400 834
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