JKLF Working Committee Meeting in Nottingham on 11 January 2015
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Friday, 23 January 2015
Protest against the arrival of Indian PM to UK
CALLING ALL FREEDOM LOVERS.Join us for a demonstration in London (Downing Street) against the arrival of Indian PM to UK to protest against settlement of non state citizens in Kashmir, Indian rule in Kashmir and against persecution of minorities in India
on
Date: Saturday 31st January
Time: 12pm - 2pm
Location: 10 Downing Street, London SW1A 2AA
Email: info@ jklf.co uk
www.jklf.co.uk
Thursday, 25 December 2014
Elections in Indian held Kashmir and detention of JKLF Chairman Yasin Malik –a serious question mark on Indian democracy.
Elections
in Indian held Kashmir and detention of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF- Chairman
Yasin Malik –a serious question mark on Indian democracy.
Luton- UK: 25 Dec.
A
meeting of solidarity with the JKLF and its Chairman Mr Yasin Malik was held
here on 24 December in support of the anti-election stance of the JKLF and its
Chairman in Indian held Kashmir. JKLF Chairman
went on a hunger strike three days prior to his release between the early hours
of December 23 and December 24, in protest at the repressive and vindictive
actions of Indian authorities against JKLF activists and their families,
relatives and friends in Srinagar especially in Maisooma and neighbourhoods where total boycott of the polls took place.
Speaking
at the meeting JKLF’s head of Diplomatic Bureau Prof Zafar Khan strongly
condemned Indian authorities for keeping
JKLF Chairman Mr Yasin Malik incarcerated for almost two months during the
entire duration of the election period
in Indian held Jammu Kashmir. He called Indian actions undemocratic, inhuman
and callous, and urged the International community and humanitarian
organisations including those in India, to take serious note of the
undemocratic and inhuman behaviour of India’s State apparatus in Indian held
Jammu Kashmir. He accused the Indian government of Narendra Modi of showing
utter disregard and contempt by violating the most sacred and fundamental
democratic principles of political rights and freedom of speech during the
elections.
Quite
clearly Mr Yasin Malik and his party the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF
were denied both of these basic principles and rights as a result of Mr Malik’s
incarceration and oppressive actions against the JKLF activists during and
after the election process. He reminded the meeting that Mr Yasin Malik opposed
the elections in Kashmir within the framework of Indian constitution, which he
and the JKLF does not recognise as an alternative to Kashmiris’ right of
self-determination, and reunification of forcibly divided Jammu Kashmir between
India and Pakistan since.
He
said that the concerted and orchestrated campaign, the repressive and
undemocratic actions by the Indian government can only be described as a
desperate attempt to silence the JKLF and deprive Kashmiri masses of a genuine
and representative voice. He accused Indian authorities of being extremely
indifferent, negligent and callous toward Mr Malik’s medical condition during
his 7 week incarceration by shifting him from hospital to prison cell,
especially since he has a long standing kidney ailment that requires regular
medical care and treatment. He said the
authorities’ inattentive attitude to Mr Malik’s health needs during his hunger
strike in particular, has caused
resentment and anger within Kashmiris across both sides of the
Cease-Fire Line in Kashmir and throughout the Kashmiri Diaspora.
Referring to the post-election situation in Indian held
Kashmir Zafar Khan said despite visiting
Jammu Kashmir eight times in his six
month tenure as Prime Minister of India, Mr Modi has not only failed to obtain the desired
results in Jammu Kashmir, he has further fanned the flames and heightened the
passions for a permanent solution of Kashmir dispute. The election results have
created a climate of uncertainty and an inevitable political stalemate. Zafar
Khan called this state of affairs a consequence of communal political agenda
which the Bharatiya Janata Party-the BJP-under Mr Modi pursued particularly in
the Jammu region Kashmir.
However
he said despite BJP’s communal manoeuvring to further its Hindutva and Akhand
Bharat philosophy, people of Jammu Kashmir have clearly not gone along with Mr
Modi’s government. But he raised a note of caution in particular to people of
Jammu region to resist communally divisive and assimilationist political agenda
of the BJP in respect of the identity, solidarity and ultimate unity of the
entire state, including regions of Azad Jammu Kashmir- Gilgit Baltistan, and
pointed out that this identity and solidarity needed to be jealously guarded
and protected against forces of communal and ethnic divisions.
He
said Mr Malik and his party seek a peaceful and democratic solution of Kashmir
dispute and said we have intimated this to major powers including the UK, the
USA and all the UN member countries including the members of the UN Security
Council prior to, and during the current election in Indian Held Kashmir. He
said we hope and anticipate that the world community will stand up and take note
of double standards of Indian democracy in relation to Jammu Kashmir, and cited
the example of the Scottish referendum in which people of Scotland were allowed
their democratic right to decide whether they wished Scotland to remain as part
of the United Kingdom or become an independent country. He said Mr Narendra
Modi has embarked upon a vendetta against the JKLF and its leadership. India
claims to be a strong democracy and yet it prevented Mr Malik and his party from campaigning against the election in Jammu Kashmir and prevented him from a direct contact with
the people by keeping him and many of
his colleagues behind bars during the election.
Zafar
Khan concluded by reminding the Major Powers that like twenty million people of
forcibly divided Jammu Kashmir Mr Yasin Malik also seeks to decide a political
and constitutional status of his mother land through a fair, free, transparent
and democratic process as was exercised by the Scottish people; and said that the presence of seven hundred thousand
military and security personnel as well as the overwhelming physical influence
of the Indian State apparatus in Jammu Kashmir, election process of the kind
that has just been concluded is not an alternative to a lasting and just
solution of the Kashmir issue. End.
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Mahmud
Hussain
Jammu
Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF-
Diplomatic
Bureau
London
Secretariat
119-123 Cannon Street Road
Basement
North London E1 2LX
Email
contact: zafargk@aol.com
Friday, 24 October 2014
Quest for a peaceful and democratic solution of the Kashmir issue
London 23 October 2014: In a statement issued here today Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front- JKLF- has called on the world community to support the forcibly divided 20 million Kashmiris to achieve their inherent, inalienable, unfettered, pledged and internationally recognised right to self-determination.Meanwhile the JKLF statement coincides with the Indian Prime Minister’s visit to the Siachen Glacier ahead of visiting flood affected Srinagar. JKLF’s head of Diplomatic Bureau Prof Zafar Khan added that instead of acting to alleviate suffering of close to two million Kashmiris devastated by worst floods in living memory, the Indian Prime Minister chose to reinforce India’s customary intransigence by the symbolic visit to Indian troops in Siachen. Zafar Khan accused Mr Modi of electioneering in Kashmir at a time when the masses require help and assistance to rebuild their devastated lives on war footing basis. This help and assistance by all accounts appears absent or extremely slow in coming.
Recently the Diplomatic Bureau of the JKLF wrote to around 200 governments as part of its active engagement with the international community on the ‘quest for a peaceful and democratic solution of the long standing Kashmir issue. It has urged these governments to extend full political and diplomatic support to Kashmiris’ quest for freedom, justice and democracy and up hold the Kashmiris’ right to choose a political future status of a reunified Kashmir that is consistent with their fundamental human and political rights.
The JKLF has called on these governments to exert and assert their powerful voices at all international fora and also to bilaterally intercede with India and Pakistan for the noble cause of achieving peace in the subcontinent and long overdue freedom and justice for the Kashmiris.
The JKLF has reminded these governments that the Kashmir issue should not be seen as a dispute merely between India and Pakistan as over the years it has quite erroneously come to be seen and as a consequence of which 20 million Kashmiris across both sides of the Line of Control-LoC- have been rendered invisible in this Indo- Pakistan dimension over the issue.
The JKLF has strongly reiterated that despite their claims and counter claims, and their entrenched positions, both India and Pakistan, and particularly despite Indian intransigence, the solution of the issue remained vested in the democratic and unfettered political will of 20 million Kashmiris, and that this democratic right of Kashmiris has not only been recognised by the United Nations but also by India itself. JKLF has thus called upon the world community to take India to task since she has blatantly reneged on commitments and pledges made to the international community and also given to the Kashmiris.
The JKLF has reminded these governments that Kashmir is one of the most militarised regions of the world and that India alone has well in excess of half a million regular military personnel deployed in the territory that are backed up by tens of thousands of paramilitary forces which are stationed in urban and rural areas of Indian occupied part of Kashmir.
Pakistan too, states the JKLF communication to these governments, has heavy deployment of its troops on her side of the LoC. This eye-ball to eye-ball deployment of huge number of forces argues the JKLF, by both countries antagonistic to each other has made it impossible for ordinary Kashmiris on both sides of the LoC to lead a normal life. They face daily dangers to life, limb and property as flare ups between the opposing forces are a daily occurrence- as it is the case since 1 October 2014 along the entire LoC. JKLF argues that In the absence of a viable and just solution of the Kashmir issue and India and Pakistan being nuclear armed powers and having fought a number of wars over Kashmir, their aggressive military deployment across the LoC renders the situation fraught with incalculable and catastrophic consequences even to contemplate not only for South Asia but for the entire world.
The JKLF reminded these Governments that the nature of division of Kashmir and its people would be unacceptable anywhere else in the world today where tens of thousands of families are divided and point out that this is exactly the kind of situation which brought the ‘Iron curtain ‘down in the west. The JKLF said that as a movement committed to asserting the rights of Kashmiris it was totally committed to making Kashmir a bridge of peace between India and Pakistan as a considered party policy and a long standing national objective. The JKLF correspondence to these governments strongly urged that Kashmiris and JKLF anticipate their active support for a peaceful and lasting solution of the Kashmir dispute.
Mahmood Hussain
For and on behalf of the JKLF
Friday, 17 October 2014
JKLF Supports 26th October March in London
President JKLF UK & Europe Zone Azmat Khan today
declared JKLF support for the London
demo proposed by Barrister Sultan Mahmood for 26th October 2014 . In a statement on behalf of JKLF with
full agreement of Chairman Yasin Malik, he stated that "following a
meeting with Barrister Sultan Mahmood, JKLF executive has now decided to
declare full support for this national cause initiated by Sultan Mahmood
because its not based on party political gains.
JKLF executive will be asking all their UK
branches to fully participate in the march in London .
JKLF Chairman Yasin Malik has also appealed to the Kashmiri population in the UK
to participate in this march for Kashmir 's right to
self-determination and raise their voice for their national cause on every
occasion.
Friday, 10 October 2014
Letter to Ambassadors in UK by JKLF Diplomatic Committee
October 2014
Dear Ambassador,
Sub: Quest for a peaceful and democratic solution of the Kashmir issue; a sincere and humble appeal for support.
Excellency through you, we solicit your Government’s valuable support and constructive intercession for a peaceful and democratic solution of the long standing unresolved conflict in Jammu Kashmir- commonly referred to as Kashmir between India, Pakistan and the 20 million people of Kashmir.
We are confident that your Government will not hesitate to exert and assert its powerful voice in search for a just peaceful resolution of the conflict and for this noble objective, will forth-rightly engage within relevant international fora and, indeed directly with the Governments of India and Pakistan. Furthermore, we take this opportunity to seek your support for our inherent, inalienable and internationally recognised right to self-determination and a democratically arrived at political status of a reunified Jammu and Kashmir of our democratic choice.
We strongly reiterate that Kashmir issue should not be seen as a dispute merely between India and Pakistan as over the years it has quite erroneously come to be seen. People of Kashmir have been rendered invisible in this Indo- Pakistan dimension over the issue.
Whatever the claims and counter claims, and the entrenched positions of both countries, the solution of the issue in our considered view remains vested in the democratic will of 20 million Kashmiris. The locus of Kashmiris in the future status of the forcibly divided Jammu Kashmir has not only been recognised by the United Nations but also by India itself.
An example of such Indian recognition is cited herein regarding just one of the many solemn pledges that India made on the question of Kashmir’s future political status when on 1st January 1948 she took the matter to the United nations and 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 UN 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 however India no longer cares for the commitments and pledges that she made in respect of Kashmir’s future political dispensation both to Kashmiris and to the world community at the United Nations. Successive Indian Governments have not only reneged on these pledges, India today refuses even to recognise that a popular struggle for justice, democracy and freedom prevails in Kashmir. Instead the genuine popular sentiments and aspirations of Kashmiris to exercise their free will and reunification of the forcibly divided Kashmir are associated with the so- called ‘proxy’ war, extremism or terrorism. Nothing can be further from the reality.
The truth however is that we seek peacefully to reunify our forcibly divided country- which is de-facto under Indian and Pakistani control- and ensure that instead of being a perpetual bone of contention, Kashmir becomes a bridge of peace between India and Pakistan.
At present Kashmiri is one of the most militarised regions of the world. India alone has over half a million regular military personnel deployed along the Line of Control-LoC- across backed up by tens of thousands of paramilitary forces which are stationed in cities and towns rural areas of Indian occupied part of
Kashmir. Pakistan too has heavy deployment of its troops on the LoC The eye-ball to eye-ball deployment of huge number of forces of both countries antagonistic to each other has made it impossible for ordinary Kashmiris on both sides of the LoC to lead normal life. They face daily dangers to life, limb and property as flare ups between the opposing forces are a daily occurrence.
As both countries are nuclear powers such aggressive deployment and an absence of a viable and just solution of the Kashmir issue renders the situation fraught with incalculable and catastrophic consequences even to contemplate not only for South Asia but for the entire world.
Tens of thousands of Kashmiri families remain divided and are unable to meet each-other in times of grief and joy. Those who are lucky enough to obtain visas have to navigate unfathomable beauracratic hurdles on both sides. This is a state of affairs that should not and must not prevail in a modern world of 2014 and, would not be accepted or tolerated anywhere else. This is exactly why the ‘Iron Curtain’ collapsed in the west. We seek the same through peaceful exercise of our right of self-determination regarding the Line of Control.
Leadership of the JKLF is totally committed to making Kashmir a bridge of peace between India and Pakistan as a considered party policy and a long standing national objective. We believe that a free and sovereign Kashmir will truly become a peaceful bridge between India and Pakistan and is the vital proverbial key that unlocks the tremendous potential of both countries for the region and the world. Twenty million people of forcibly divided Jammu Kashmir will also reap the dividends of such a peace and prosperity.
Excellency we seek your government’s active support for our peaceful struggle in unlocking this potential for India , Pakistan, Kashmiris and the rest of the world. We anticipate and indeed seek your vitally important role in persuading the concerned parties and in particular Indian Government to seek a people centric solution in Kashmir through the good will of the international community and many friends of both India and Pakistan, and through a frank and objective interaction and negotiation process with Pakistan and the people of Kashmir.
We further hope that you will support us in our efforts to maintain interaction with you on matters of mutual interest for furtherance of peaceful resolution of the Kashmir conflict.
In this regard we would appreciate it very much if your excellency would accede to our humble request for a meeting to further elaborate on our approach to a peaceful resolution of the Kashmir issue and that, - in near future your excellency or appropriate members of your mission will participate in our seminar/ workshops on finding a way forward to lasting and equitable peaceful resolution of Kashmir issue and peace and prosperity for South Asia.
With Anticipation and warm regards
Prof. Zafar Khan
Chairman Diplomatic Bureau
Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF-
London Secretariat:
119-123 Cannon Street Road,
(Basement North)
London, E1 2LX
Email: zafargk@aol.com
Phone: 0795 6400 834
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