London: Diplomatic Bureau of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front during a meeting here on Tuesday noted with profound regret that major powers, especially the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council –UNSC- have turned a blind eye to the plight of people in Jammu Kashmir.
According to a press statement the Front leaders said that world powers’ lopsided approach and double standards over the Kashmiris’ right to freedom has given India a license to oppress and subjugate an entire nation. The meeting of the Diplomatic Bureau recalled that India’s presence in Jammu Kashmir is subject to international legal obligations, accountability and with solemn undertakings by India on the political status of Jammu Kashmir, which the Indian blatantly disregards today.
The meeting noted that India’s 700,000 military forces of occupation in Jammu Kashmir operate against the populace with impunity, and are responsible for wanton acts of violence and human rights violations against the masses. The youth of Kashmir in particular is a deliberate target of the Indian occupation forces.
The participants of the meeting took strong note of the fact, that the entire occupation apparatus, the ruling BJP/RSS nexus, and the Indian media, are deliberately engaged in a malicious, and nefarious propaganda, to malign an indigenous freedom struggle in Jammu Kashmir as ‘Islamist’, ‘proxy’ and ‘cross border terrorism’. The meeting strongly condemned the BJP/RSS ruling nexus, the Indian military, and the Indian media for supporting the use of Kashmiris as human shields by Indian forces in Kashmir, and called the Indian media as an extension of state oppression in Jammu Kashmir.
The meeting strongly condemned Indian authorities’ treatment of resistance leadership by recalling that Mr Yasin Malik has been incarcerated on dozens of times with lengthy periods in jail, while Syed Ali Gilani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq have been under house arrest for long periods of time. “India denies Kashmiri leaders their fundamental democratic right to assembly and free speech, and still claims to be the largest democracy in the worldâ€, they said.
The meeting declared that the JKLF will mount a concerted and robust diplomatic campaign, and expose the excesses and atrocities perpetrated by India’s occupation forces against the masses in Jammu Kashmir.
The diplomatic Bureau strongly reiterated and affirmed JKLF’s long standing position, that Kashmir is not a territorial dispute between India and Pakistan, and that Kashmiris do not recognize respective territorial claims of both India and Pakistan over Jammu Kashmir. The meeting considered the Shimla Agreement detrimental to the fundamental right of the people of Jammu Kashmir to determine their future status as a nation.
The meeting was attended by Mr Sabir Gul and Mr Tehsin Gilani president and general secretary, respectively of the JKLF’s British chapter, and senior JKLF leaders and Bureau members Mr Mahmoud Hussain and Mr Tariq Sharif. While as written suggestions from another Bureau member and party Spokesman Mr. M. Rafiq Dar from Rawalpindi, Pakistan were also taken into account.
Meanwhile, JKLF Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik’s message on current developments was conveyed to the meeting by the Diplomatic Bureau’s head Prof Zafar Khan, which included his profound shock and grief at the terrorist atrocity in Manchester on 22 May. The JKLF Chairman extended his condolences and solidarity to the families of the deceased, and people of Manchester, and the United Kingdom.
