Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front Stoke On Trent United Kingdom organized a huge public meeting to commemorate 32nd death anniversary of Maqbool Butt Shaheed and other Kashmiri Martyrs.

Hundreds of Kashmiries attended this conference.

Chairman JKLF Yasin Malik addressed this conference via telephone from Sirinagar.
Mr.Yasin Malik appriciated UK Zone for their diplomatic efforts to highlight Jammu Kashmir issue in front  of international community.

He said that india can not stop our national freedom movement by her military might.However, history is witness that nobody could stop any freedom movement by force in this world.

He assured the audiences that JKLF will follow the philosophy of Maqbool butt will not quit or stop this freedom movement untill achieving the objective of complete independence of our motherland Jammu Kashmir.

President UK Zone said in his speech that issue of jammu kashmir is not a border dispute between india and pakistan but it is an issue of a nation,s freedom.he said we are not a proxy between india or pakistan.we are in a peaceful democratic non violent movement to achieve our national freedom.

General secretary Tehseen gillani said that Gilgat Baltistan is a constitutional part of Jammu Kashmir and JKLF will resist against any paln to merge GB as province by pakistan.

Cheif Organiser Abrar Nisar said while addressing to conference that international community should support our peaceful non violent democratic movement in Jammu Kashmir.

Ex President Azmat Khan said that we should enhance our diplomatic efforts on international level to achieve our objective.
He also added
that we should engage british Kashmiri community to reach to british political parties and Government in order to get their support.

President Soke on Trent Farid Ayaz and secretary branch Waheed Hissain said that Maqbool Butt and other martyrs are our heros and we will continue our struggle untill victory.

other speakers in this conference were.

Shakeel Mirza spokesman JKLF Zone
Sajad Wasti President Nottingham.
Saeed Ahmed organizer Stoke on Trent.
Khawaja Kabir member supreme council JKLF.
Aslam Mirza, Aqeel Butt, Shafiq Qadri, Amjid Nawaz
Nazam Bhati , Liaqat Lone.Sofi Sikander.Malik Latif.Mumtaz Mirza Zafran Mirza.Rasib kashmiri, Ali Asghar and others.


Shakeel Mirza 
Spokesman JKLF UK Zone

Protest against incarceration of Professor SAR Geelani others, held at Jenab sahib Soura….
India and its stooges have choked every little space for peaceful political activities, Political dissent and this is pushing youth to the wall //JKLF
Tributes paid to recently martyred youth…….

Jenab sahib Soura // Choking peaceful space on dissent and arresting people for sedition merely for standing with truth is a ploy to create an atmosphere of fear and intimidation. Prolonging incarceration of Professor SAR Geelani and others shows the double faced and hypocritical approach of Indian rulers. This was stated by the vice chairman JKLF Showkat Ahmad Bakhshi and others while speaking to people at Jenab Sahib Soura today. Earlier JKLF leaders and activists along with people from other walks of life participated in a protest rally held at Soura.

The rally was organized to stage protest against prolonging incarceration of noted educationist and social leader Professor SAR Geelani and others who are in jail under fake and manipulated sedition charges. Participants of the rally chanted slogans in favor of Azadi, Martyrs and immediate release of Professor Geelani and other students.

JKLF leaders Showkat Ahmad Bakhshi, Noor Muhammad Kalwal, Zahoor Ahmad Butt, Sheikh Khalid, Bashir Ahmad Kashmiri, Muhammad Sideeq shah, professor Javed, Showkat Ahmad Dar, Muhammad Maqbool Taploo , Ghulam Muhammad Dar, Muhammad Hanief and others were present on the occasion. While speaking to the participants of the rally, JKLF leaders said that India and its stooges have choked every little space for peaceful political activities. Political dissent and raising voice against oppression, tyranny and torture have been banned.

In Kashmir during 2008 and 2010 when people of Kashmiris transformed their struggle from violent to non violent, hundreds of young Kashmiris fell to the bullets of trigger happy Indians, thousands of young boys and youth were arrested and tortured and from then they along with their families are being humiliated on daily basis.

Speakers said that this oppression is pushing young Kashmiris to the wall and hence promoting worst kind of violence. Speakers said that this Indian oppression is responsible for the killings of our young buds and today because of this undemocratic and oppressive behavior we are receiving the corpses of our brilliant minds. While paying tributes to recently martyred Kashmiri youth Shaheed Ishaaq Ahmad Parray, Shaheed Asif Ahmad Mir and Shaheed Ashiq Hussain of Tral area, speakers said that these young boys are laying their lives for a just cause and we salute their sacrifices.

Speakers said that Indian rulers in their pursuit to suppress voices rising in support of Kashmir in Indian states have started intimidating people and charging them with black laws.

Today professor SAR Geealni and many students of JNU are in jails under concocted allegations and rulers and their authorities are trying everything possible to prolong their detention. Speakers said that SAR Geelani is a known social, human rights activist and has been raising his voice for political prisoners, human rights of Kashmiris and other human issues.

Speakers said that arresting SAR Geelani like people on concocted charges and putting them behind bar is condemnable and irony is that no one is today raising voice against Professor Geealni’s incarceration. Speakers said that Kashmiris will keep protesting against this ban on freedom of speech and thought, against incarceration of Professor Geelani and intimidating Kashmiris especially students studying in India.

On the occasion people chanted slogans against arresting Professor SAR Geelani and others and threatening Kashmiris living in India.

To    
Date: 11 February, 2016
His Excellency,  Mr. Navtej Sarna
High Commissioner of India
India House, London



Dear High Commissioner


We are demonstrating here today to express our  deep concerns over the continued human rights violations in Jammu Kashmir along with the denial of  internationally pledged right of self-determination to the people of  forcibly divided Jammu-Kashmir. In particular, we are concerned that your government has introduced draconian laws in Jammu Kashmir to suppress freedom of expression and our democratic right to protest against and oppose these laws. We are concerned that the chairman of JKLF, Yasin Malik, along with many other Kashmiri leader are routinely arrested and imprisoned without any charge and their right to movement and public gathering is curtailed by the use of heavy police or military personnel.
We are here to protest against the forced disappearance and  false imprisonment of thousands of Kashmiri youth, many of whom have been ordered to be released by courts but the puppet state government has failed to comply with court orders.

We would also like to draw the world attention to a case of repatriation of mortal remains of the Kashmiri independence leader, Maqbool Butt, who wrongfully executed by Indian government 31 years ago on 11th February 1984, despite international pleas for clemency, and buried inside Tihar jail, without allowing his immediate family to claim his body.

11 February is marked as a Black Day in Kashmir every year and thousands of Kashmiris take out processions and protest rallies to mark his death anniversary, including UK Kashmiris who are once again protesting and demanding the return of his mortal remains for a proper burial in Kashmir.

Last year we presented to your office a signed petition by over 6 dozen members of the  UK and European Parliament including,  members of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Kashmir, supporting the call for return of Maqbool Butt’s mortal remains to his family but we have had no response from your government so far.

We enclose a copy of the signed petition again for your perusal with the hope that you will not ignore our plea on this occasion.




Yours sincerely ;


Sabir Gull
President,  Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front  (UK)


Shoukat Maqbool  Butt – Son of Late Maqbool Butt

Seminar on Kashmir Issue held at Kings College London entitled:                                
 “Jammu Kashmir Conflict- Conflicting Perspectives”.

18-February 2016

By Zafar Khan

Chairman:
Dr Dibyesh Anand, I wish to extend my thanks to you and the organisers of this seminar entitled: Jammu Kashmir Conflict: Conflicting Perspectives.

Right 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.

Currently 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.
India 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.

What 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.

Chairman, I do not want to dwell  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.

Without 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!

With 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.
The 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
                                                                                                                                           
Chairman of  Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF- for example over the past few months  alone, has been beaten up, put under arrest dozens of times and prevented from political  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.

Chairman, 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.
Not 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.

Solemn 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.
Chairman, 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.
Who 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.

India for example in one of its many solemn pledges on Kashmir declared:

“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.

Unfortunately 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.

Chairman 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.

                                                                                                                                             
Kashmir 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.

Chairman, 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.

While 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.

In 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.  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.

*Zafar Khan is head of Diplomatic Bureau of the JKLF.

Lord Eric Avebury (A Liberal Peer) passed away on 14th February 2016. We wish to pay tribute to this remarkable human being, who was seen as the voice of the oppressed and neglected minorities throughout the world. His tireless struggle for the rights of the victims of the human rights abuses, earned him their respect. His humanity and passion earned him their love. A truly towering figure, an ambassador of the downtrodden and oppressed nations. He was very vocal on the human rights abuses, especially  in the Indian controlled part of Kashmir, where around 700,000 Indian troops reign with terror and brutality.  While his passing will be immense void not only for his family but also for hundreds of thousands throughout the world, whose life's have been changed, through his fight for peace, justice and freedom.

R.I.P

(Born 29 Sep 1928---Died  14 February 2016).

Kind Regards, 

Mahmood Hussain

Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front UK Zone (JKLF )

9, Maude Terrace, 

Walthamstow, 

London E17 7DG

07956400834

Picture: Memorable Picture of Late Lord Eric Avebury with officials of JKLF UK Zone