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
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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

(London, 2 Sep 2009) Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) has made it clear that Gilgit Baltistan is an integral part of Jammu and Kashmir State and any step aimed at dividing it permanently will be resisted by Kashmiri people all around the world.

A special meeting of JKLF London branch was held in London to discuss the Pakistan government’s recent self-rule package for Gilgat-Biltistan. In a statement issued after the meeting, it said that the so called self-rule package for Gilgit Baltistan is an attempt by Pakistan Government to make it fifth province of the country and first step to divide Kashmir. The members present demanded the package to be reversed as soon as possible and Pakistan should not bring itself to India’s level.

The meeting also concluded that over the years Pakistan has lost its Kashmir case in United Nations mainly due to unjust Kashmir policy by Pakistan’s respective governments and their colonial behaviour towards parts of Kashmir controlled by them.

JKLF London branch also endorsed the stand taken by Veteran Kashmiri Leader and Supreme Head of JKLF, Mr Amanullah Khan, in which he said that the move had robbed the special status of Kashmiris in Pakistan and this move will harm the interests of both Pakistan and Kashmiris.

The meeting was addressed by Mahmood Faiz (Branch President), Javaid Rashid, Mahmood Hussain, Zafar Sharif, Sanawar Hussain, Shakoor Chaudry and Nadeem Iqbal.

Javaid Rashid,
Secretary, JKLF (London Branch)

Tuesday, September 01, 2009
By By Our Correspondent

LEADERS of all the political parties of Azad Jammu and Kashmir have called upon the governments of India and Pakistan to immediately resume talks to resolve the Kashmir issue on the basis of Kashmiris’ right of self-determination.

A press released issued after the AJK political leaders meeting here on Monday said: “Eminent Kashmiri leaders, representing all major political parties of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Northern Areas, met in Islamabad on 27-8-09 to resume their discussions for a peaceful solution of the Kashmir issue.”

“The political developments since their last meeting, following their meeting with Foreign Minister of Pakistan on September 20, 2007 were discussed. The leaders noted with great concern the lack of progress in the negotiations between the governments of Pakistan and India on resolution of the Kashmir issue and urged the two governments to resume the talks without delay,” the statement added.

The leaders reaffirmed that the people of Jammu and Kashmir stand united to achieve their right of self-determination, reiterating the demand that the former state should remain indivisible, geographically, politically and constitutionally, and that the right of self-determination also entitled them to sit with the representatives of the governments of Pakistan and India to conclude arrangements meeting the national security concerns of Pakistan and India.

They exchanged views about the nature of the future State of Jammu and Kashmir and decided to take the necessary steps to explore the views of the government of Pakistan. They also decided to extend invitation to the leaders of the people of Jammu and Kashmir in the Indian held areas of the former state.

The representatives of the people of the Former State of Jammu and Kashmir urged the two governments to open all points on the Line of Control and all the roads and paths, including the Kargil-Skardu and Mirpur-Jammu (Mnawar Akhnur) road for traffic and commerce.

The Kashmiri leaders showed deep concerns at the continued senseless violence against the innocent people of the state adding to the horrendous toll of lives during the past nineteen years.

Those who attended the meeting were: Chaudhry Muhammad Latif Akbar, PPP-AJK Secretary General and Minister of Finance in the AJK Government Sardar Khalid Ibrahim Khan (MLA in the last four assemblies) President, Jammu Kashmir Peoples Party, AJK, Mr Abdul Majeed Malick, Chief Justice (r) AJK, President, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation League, Mr Amanullah Khan and Supreme Head of JKLF Justice (r) Syed Sharif Hussain Bokhari President, Kashmir Action Committee, Mr Munir Hussain Chaudhry Advocate President Pakistan Peoples Party (SB), AJK, Mr Wajahat Hassan Mirza, Chairman APNA, Mr Nurul Bari, Naib Amir Jamat-e-Islami, Mr Ianayatullah Shimali, Chairman, Gilgit Baltistan National Alliance, Dr Najeeb Khan Naqi, former minister AJK representing the Muslim Conference AJK. The meeting was facilitated by the Pakistan-India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy and United Centre for Peace represented by Dr Mubashir Hasan.

JKLF has made it clear that Gilgit Baltistan is an integral part of Jammu and Kashmir State and any change in its administrative status betrayed a tacit shift in the government’s stand on Kashmir.
Amanullah Khan, Patron of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), said the move had robbed the Northern Areas of a special status, virtually converting it into the country’s fifth province.
Mr. Khan further said that Islamabad had lost support of the Security Council over the years due to a ‘wavering stand’ on Kashmir and now it was squandering whatever goodwill it had by merging Gilgit-Baltistan with Pakistan.
Supreme Head Amanulah Khan has demanded the Azad Kashmir style of governance in Gilgit Baltistan.

In the meantime, JKLF Central Executive meeting will be held in Rawalpindi on 2 September 2009 to discuss the new developments.