London 23 Oct,2016: A high level Kashmiri delegation met with the head of Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), Nicola Mockeridge, in London to bring to UK Foreign Minister Boris Johnson’s attention to the case of illegal imprisonment of Kashmiri leaders in Indian Occupied Kashmir and the deteriorating health condition of the incarcerated, JKLF chairman, Yasin Malik, whose kidney and heart condition has worsened during his imprisonment since 8th July, in Srinagar, due to ill treatment in prison and medical negligence. The delegation, lead by JKLF’s former UK president Azmat A Khan, who is currently heading organistion’s Political & Diplomatic Campaigns, Secretary General of the London based human rights organisation, JKCHR, Dr Nazir Gelani and the London representative of the Kashmiri Democratic Freedom Party, Ershad Malik.

The Kashmiri delegation urged the UK government through FCO to intervene on humanitarian basis to save Kashmiri leader’s life and urge India to release all political prisoners including young and elderly leaders, women and children who have been arrest in their thousands during the past 3 months. The Kashmiri delegation also urged FCO to take effective measures through the UN mechanism to bring to halt gross human rights violation against the civilian population who are exercising their right to protest against India’s draconian laws in Kashmiri and denying the Kashmiri people their right to self-determination with brutal force.

They expressed concerns with the UK government’s docile policy of none intervention in Kashmir as ineffective and inadequate and said that as a member of the UN Security Council Britain had a political and historical responsibility to play its role in bringing about lasting peace in Jammu-Kashmir where over a hundred of innocent protestors have been killed nearly 300 youth blinded by lethal weapons such pellet guns. The Kashmiri delegation also pointed to regional security implications and the dangers of growing anti-western sentiments in Jammu-Kashmir and in South Asia because of the complete silence over Kashmir uprising in the recent months by international community and the media.

The JKLF underlined the consequential fallout within both side of Kashmir as well as in the Diaspora community in UK, which is deeply worried about the ongoing unrest and the repression in Jammu-Kashmir, including the arbitrary arrests of many of the  JKLF leaders and  Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Shabir Shah, Syed Ali Gelani and human rights lawyer Khuram Pervez.

During the hour and half long meeting, several questions were raised by the Head of FCO and the Kashmiri delegation made it clear that the current standoff between India and Pakistan and the lack of progress in bilateral negotiations between Indian and Pakistan has lead to deep resentment and discontent and the so called ‘confidence building measures’, have failed to build on any hope for an early resolution of the Kashmir Issue. A number of proposals were put forward by the Kashmiri delegation for consideration regarding the extra-judicial killings, false imprisonment of minors and abduction cases involving security forces and the local state government activities which are in conflict with the international law.

JKLF -UK chapter is lobbying the UK parliament on Monday, 24th October, to bring to their attention the case of Kashmiri prisoners and the ongoing repression, which has gone into 106 days today.

Spokesman JKLF UK Zone.
Shakeel Mirza.

Srinagar 19 SEP: Spokesman || JKLF on Monday said that the outfit chairman Yasin Malik was shifted to Humhama Joint

Interrogation Center (JIC) for “unknown reasons.” A spokesperson said that Malik remained detained at Humhama police station, but today police shifted him to another place without giving any reasons to anyone.

Malik was arrested on July 8, soon after Hizb commander Burhan Wani was killed in an encounter in south Kashmir.

• Since 8th July, 82 civilian protestors, including women and children, have been killed in indiscriminate firing by occupation forces.  Unprecedented use of untested pellet guns continues even today despite promises to abandon them.  The Indian manufacturer of these pellet guns has reportedly said that these guns were never tested for human use. They are primarily meant for animal hunting but the Mufti lead puppet state regime has done nothing to protect their own people. Hospitals in IOK are overfilled with 18000 injured, most of them are teenagers. Minimum cost for their treatment is estimated to be 2-3 lakh rupees each. Doctors have said that over 300 will never be able to see again.  You will recall that in the 2014 Intifada  102 civilians were massacred but no one has ever been taken to task to face any kind of justice because Indian ‘security forces’ enjoy special immunity against prosecution in J&K under the draconian AFSPA law since 1990.
  
• While Indian Home Minister, Rajnath Singh, was using words like “insaniyat and jamhooriat” he secretly authorized increase of armed personnel to be deployed in the villages and re-activated Special Task Force which was previously used to harass and arrest pro-independence activists.  It has also come to light that relatives of the local puppet regime lead by Mahbooba Mufti were sent to pellet victims’ homes and hospitals to offer them lakhs of rupees of bribes to speak against the Hurriyat leaders but they found no takers. Since then protests have spread to Jammu’s Kishtwar and Rajouri district. This is not new Intifada. Kashmiris have been in the streets since 1984.  
  
• Since 8th July, over 6000 Kashmiri students, activist, leaders, lawyers and even health workers, including JKLF chairman Yasin Malik and president Noor Mohammad Kalwal, Bashir Bhat and  Yaseen Bhat have been arrested and are held in most inhuman conditions in prisons without allowing any visits or offering any medical help. Yasin Malik has an acute heart blood-clotting condition but has been refused treatment. We fear for his life. Two weeks ago, Khuram Pervez, a human rights lawyer who was scheduled to visit UNHCR, was arrested at Delhi airport, barring him from leaving the country. You may be aware that India has refused UNHCR fact finding access to Jammu-Kashmir which clearly means that they have a lot to hide. Yasin Malik was taken into custody because of his role in getting the two Hurriyat factions together and Khuram Pervez is in jail because he has collected credible evidence and testimonies from victims of  Indian ‘insaniyat and jamhooriat’.    
  

• It's been 32 years since a leader of the Kashmir independence movement, Maqbool Butt Shaheed, was hanged in Tihar jail. His dead body still remains a prisoner in Tihar. Last year 60 members of the UK and European parliament sent a joint letter to India’s President, Parnab Mukarjee, asking him to authorize the release of Maqbool Butt remains to his family. There has been no response from Modi’s India.
  
• The issue of mass graves, where some 7000 unmarked graves were discovered in North Kashmir 10 years ago, remains unresolved despite efforts of the human rights commission and Srinagar High Court ordering the government to exhume the bodies and undertake identification and proper burial process.
  
  
• While we have reservations regarding Pakistan’s diplomatic offensive in support of our movement for self-determination we welcome Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif’s genuine offer to the world for ‘demilitarization’ of Jammu-Kashmir  at the UNGA last week, including the call for UN lead investigatory mission,  and we hope that  he is including AJK and GB areas under Pakistani control in this offer.  
  
• Yesterday, India’s foreign secretary Sushma Sawraj, stood at the same podium and made a mockery of his offer and shamelessly defied everything that this august body stands for, including mocking of the historic UN Security resolutions, which both India and Pakistan accepted, that do not recognize the J&K   to be part of any country.  
  We are concerned that the  international community, including UK, Europe and USA is less interested in using its  influence to persuade India to come to an amicable solution through dialogue and more interested in selling military hardware to India (and Pakistan), despite the fact  that  the two countries have fought 3 wars and if ‘Kashmir issue’ remains unresolved a 4th war in inevitable,
  Large Kashmiri Diaspora in the UK and Europe and a number of MPs and MEPs have expressed concerns that if the UN and influential world leaders remain silent on this fundamental issue of self-determination and its brutal suppression by India, grave human rights violations will increase and with daunting prospect of war-crimes and genocide against Kashmiri civilian protestors who are not  prepared to compromise with India come what may.
  
• We demand to be spoken verbally prepare list of demands.
  

• We are going to  speak of  steps to be taken in terms of worldwide political and diplomatic offensive in favour of full complete independence ...etc

Srinagar-26 August: JLKF chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik on Thursday said that Indian leaders were making a mockery of political dialogue on Kashmir by inviting people to meetings through Twitter.

In a statement, Malik said that only talks between all parties involved in the Jammu and Kashmir dispute can prove fruitful, as dialogue between India and Pakistan, India and Kashmir, and Pakistan and Kashmir have failed to yield any results.

The JKLF chief who is languishing in central jail Srinagar since last month said that Indian home minister’s invitation for talks through Twitter was ridiculous. “Talks are held between two parties on the basis of equality, but here is the Indian home minister acting like a visiting monarch, asking his subjects to reach him and put forth their grievances,” Malik said.


“Bilateral dialogue process has been a futile exercise. That is why people of Jammu and Kashmir want a dialogue between all concerned parties to this dispute. It is our belief that only this kind of dialogue can resolve this dispute and bring lasting peace and prosperity to South Asia,” he said.

Malik said that Kashmiris have always stood for peaceful means of resistance but it is the Indian “occupational forces” and their Kashmiri “stooges” who from 1947 have used their police and military might to suppress peaceful resistance.

“Today, when whole of Kashmir including Rajouri, Poonch, Kishtwar, Baderwah, Doda, Ramban, Banihal and Kargil are asking for freedom, the Indian leadership and their Kashmiri stooges are still in denial and are terming the voices of millions as the voice of some miscreants,” he added.


The JKLF spokesman said in a separate statement that “police and Indian forces are continuing their nocturnal raids, crackdowns, spree of arrests and other oppressive measures against Kashmiris, especially against young boys and students throughout Kashmir.”

He said that police have arrested JKLF district secretary Mushtaq Ahmad of Koreg Ganderbal and raided the residence of JKLF district president Ganderbal, Bashir Ahmad Rather.

Sudhanoti-19 August: Bloch residents Came Out to Protest Against Indian Atrocities In IOK And to Demand Complete Freedom Both From India And Pakistan.

The Protest Rally Was Organized By JKLF And JKSLF Bloch On Friday.



President AJKGB, Toqeer Gilani told to rally: we want to highlight the injustices of innocent people dying and demand an end to State terrorism unleashed by Indian Army In Indian Occupied Jammu Kashmir .

 We also demanded a complete withdrawal Of All Foreign Forces From Divided Jammu Kashmir State So That People Of Jammu Kashmir State Can Decide Their Own Future Through An Internationally Supervised Free And Fair Referendum.



At the end, the rally also supported the demands Of People Of Gilgit Baltistn In Reference To Pak-China Economic Corridor.