JKLF UK Zone Convention - 04 October 2015 in Luton
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Monday, 5 October 2015
Tuesday, 15 September 2015
The Kashmir issue and the Labour Party - Letter to Jeremy Corbyn
Dear Mr Corbyn,
In the first instance I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on becoming leader of the British Labour Party.
You may not recall but I met you in mid 1990s to seek your support on the Kashmiri peoples's right to self determination and the peaceful resolution of the Kashmir issue. As I recall Mr Corbyn you 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.
In a meeting that lasted for around 30 minutes 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.
We also met very briefly for the second time when you visited Luton a few years ago where our mutual friend and your fellow Parliamentarian Mr Kelvin Hopkins MP introduced me to you.
You' ve become leader of a party whose roots are embedded against exploitation and suffering of ordinary people, and a party which was determined to eradicate inequality, exploitation and suffering for ever.
Your success in becoming the leader of this progressive and people centric political party symbolises that founding spirit of the Labour Party.
The 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.
I am confident that the momentum and dynamism of the current spirit in the revitalised Labour Party will enable a change of government in 2020 under your leadership.
Mr Corbyn as you are a great supporter of causes against exploitation and oppression at home and abroad, I am confident that as Leader of the Opposition you and the Labour Party 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 resolution of the issue which is the longest unresolved 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.
Mr 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.
However Kashmiris have lost all confidence in the bilateralism of India and Pakistan, and feel that the 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 and agreed upon by both India and Pakistan.
I hope therefore that you, unlike the current British government 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 (usually refered to as Kashmir ), to determine a political and constitutional status consistent with their inherent and inalienable right of self determination.
As you are a man of the people and as such more accessible, may I take this opportunity to request for a short meeting with members of the Diplomatic Bureau 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.
With regards
Prof Zafar Khan
(Chair )
Monday, 7 September 2015
JKLF London Branch Elections - Mr Sanawar Hussain Elected as Branch President
JKLF London Branch elections were held in
JKLF Secretariat London. Sanawar Hussain was elected as Branch
President, Mahmood Hussain as Vice President, Mahmood Faiz as Secretary, Javaid
Rashid as Finance Secretary, Umer Ishaq as Organiser and Iftikhar Sharif as
Press Secretary.
Member of Election Commission Tariq Sharif administered the
oath to the newly elected body of London Branch.
Saturday, 29 August 2015
JKLF London Branch Dissolved. New office bearers to be elected on 4th September 2015
(London 29 August 2015): Jammu
Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) London Branch is holding its branch
elections on 4th September 2015 in which new office bearers for the next 4
years will be elected.
A meeting of JKLF London Branch was held in London, in which
the current branch was officially dissolved. Members have already submitted
their nominations and elections will be presided over by member of JKLF
Election Commission Mr Tariq Sharif.
Speaking on this occasion, Senior Leader of JKLF in UK
Mahmood Hussain said that the members were enthusiastic about renewing their
commitment for their part in the liberation movement and will re-affirm their
pledge for the just struggle for the independence movement. Mahmood Hussain said that JKLF has become the
most powerful movement advocating for inalienable and unfettered right to
self-determination for the divided people of Jammu-Kashmir. He further said
that JKLF represents unwavering, unyielding and selfless commitment for
peaceful and democratic resolution of the issue for self-determination and its
members will renew their commitment to the freedom movment and will set out
seek international attention and support in the years to come
Meeting was attended by office bearers of JKLF London branch
including outgoing President Mahmood Faiz, Javaid Rashid, Sanawar Hussain, Umer
Ishaq, Mohammed Nadeem and others.
Secretary Information
JKLF (UK)
Monday, 27 July 2015
Yasin Malik consoling cloudburst victims.
Jammu Kashmir liberation front (JKLF)
Maqbool Manzil, Srinagar.
Press Release Dated: 25th
July 2015
JKLF
chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik visits Kulan Ganderbal …. meets affected families
of recent cloudburst…distribute relief among them…..
Srinagar, 25th JULY 2015: Chairman JKLF Muhammad Yasin
Malik has expressed his regret and anguish over the plight of victims of recent
cloud burst at Kulan Gund Ganderbal which killed four people and destroyed
about 4 dozen residential houses and thus has devastated dozens of families .
While distributing relief among
the victims of the cloud burst, Yasin Malik said, that providing relief to
these affected brothers is our moral and religious duty.
Yasin Malik today along with a delegation
comprising of zonal president Noor Muhammad kalwal, zonal senior vice president
Muhammad Yasin Butt,Zonal organizer Bashir Ahmad Kashmiri, district president Ganderbal
Bashir Ahmad Rather (Boya) ,district president Srinagar Showkat Ahmad Dar and others
visited Kulan Ganderbal early today and met with the bereaved families of those
who lost their lives due to cloud burst and also those who lost their
residential houses due to the natural calamity. Yasin Malik along with other
leaders visited and met the affected families and distributed cash relief, food
items, warm blankets, polythene and thermo cool sheets and other necessary
relief items among them.
While praying for the four people
who lost their lives due to the cloud burst and also expressing solidarity with
those who lost their houses and belongings, Yasin Malik said that JKLF will do
everything possible for these victims. He said that stopping natural calamity
is not in our hands but reaching out to the affected people, providing them
necessary relief and trying to uplift them is our religious, national and moral
duty.
Yasin sahib was told that after
the cloud burst, it is only local youth and elders who voluntarily helped the
affected people. People said that So-called government has only provided some
kilograms of rice to the affected and has done nothing without this till date. The magnitude of the natural calamity was such
that besides devastating more than 40 residential houses, it totally wiped out
the local graveyard. On the occasion JKLF
chairman appealed locals and wealthy people to support these victims of natural
calamity. He said that providing relief and help to victims of natural
calamities is a religious duty which we all should try to fulfill .He also
appreciated the local volunteers who have been relentlessly providing help to
the affected people.
Meanwhile Yasin Malik has
expressed his grief over the recent cloudburst at Baltal in which many have
lost their lives and many more are missing. Expressing solidarity with the bereaved
and affected families, Yasin Malik expressed regrets on the natural calamity.
Meanwhile JKLF has expressed its
grief and sorrow over the sad demise of mother of Bashir Ahmad Parray (Tehsil
president JKLF Homshalibugh). District president JKLF Kulgam Abdul Sattar along
with Nazir Ahmad and Gulzar ahmad participated in the funeral prayers and
burial of the deceased lady. JKLF expresses its grief and sorrow over the sad
demise of this mother and prays for her heavenly abode.
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Monday, 15 June 2015
Yasin Malik leading a protest rally in Sopore against continued killing spree of civilians.
Spree of target killings in Sopore, ill intentions and motives behind these killings and ironical silence of so-called rulers over this is highly condemn-able. JKLF.
JAMMU KASHMIR LIBERATION FRONT
Maqbool
Manzil, Srinagar.
Press Release Dated: 15th JUNE 2015
YASIN MALIK VISITS SOPORE…WALKS
ON FOOT THROUGH SOPORE LOCALITEIS...JKLF, APHC(G) AND APHC (M ) JIONTLY CALL
FOR PROTEST AGAINST SOPORE KILLINGS…
Spree of target killings in Sopore,
ill intentions and motives behind these killings and ironical silence of so-called
rulers over this is highly condemnable and significant. These kinds of killings
are not acceptable to us and today all resistance parties have after mutual
consultations decided to resist these kinds of killings and oppressive attacks.
JKLF with APHC (G) and APHC (M) has decided to call for a one day protest
strike on Wednesday 17th June 2015 while as on Friday 19th
June 2015 leaders will jointly lead protest against these killings at Sopore.
This
was stated by the chairman JKLF Muhammad Yasin Malik who today led a protest
rally and sit-in at Sopore. Yasin Malik who was scheduled to leave for Jammu
today in connection with oppression against Jammu Muslims, postponed his visit and
left for Sopore where from last few days 4 innocents have been target killed
.Yasin Malik was accompanied by JKLF leaders Showkat Ahmad Bakhshi, Sheikh Abdul
Rashid, Bashir Ahmad Kashmiri, Showkat Ahmad Dar, Mohammad Amin Maglu and Shakir
Ahmad etc. Yasin Malik and others sat on a protest sit-in at main Chowk Sopore and
this Sit –in continued for more than two hours. After this Yasin Malik led a
procession and travelled on foot through all Sopore localities .people from all
walks of life including women in large numbers also joined this procession.
Raising slogans in favor of freedom, martyrs and resistance and against spree
of killings and other oppressive measures especially in Sopore this procession
finally concluded at main Chowk where Yasin Malik addressed the gathering.
In
his addresses, Yasin Malik said that spree of target killings in Sopore has
started after the Indian defense minister Manohar Parikars statement of
fighting terrorism with terrorism. Now this phenomenon is continuing and four
innocents have already lost their lives but ironically so- called government
led by mufti Sayeed has maintained criminal silence over these killings. Yasin Malik
said that this silence is significant and fishy as these rulers even after
small militant incidents used to declare people and organization involved
immediately but today after many days they have not spoken even a single word
which speaks volumes about the motive behind these killings. He said that “Sopore is the fort of Kashmir’s freedom struggle and through these
killings some people want to destroy this Fort. He said that today we are in Sopore and want
to convey to the courageous people of Sopore that we will jointly resist this
oppression and will not let anybody to destroy our faith and passion. He said that we have to raise our voice
against these targeted killings and that with the killings fear psychosis is
being created among the freedom loving people of Sopore which is not acceptable
to us. “I have come here to join you and raise voice against the killings. We
have to stand up and show that we will not get cowed down by such attacks,”
Malik said. JKLF chief said that vicious cycle of death was being unleashed
upon the people. “People are being hunted like animals and killed. We cannot
watch it silently. We have to resist it,” he told the mourners. Yasin Malik
announced that all resistance parties have today joined together and today APHC
(G), APHC (M) and JKLF together have decided to resist this spree of killings’
together. After mutual consultations we all have decided to call for a total
strike on Wednesday 17th June 2015. We have also decided to jointly
protest against this killing spree on Friday 19th June 2015 in
Sopore town. This joint protest program will be a show of solidarity with the
people of Sopore and we will together protest against these target killings
with passion and zeal. Said ,Yasin Malik.
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