Altaf Hamid Rao
MIRPUR/ISLAMABAD (Parliament Times): Since Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) – hosted protest sit in (dharna) at Jaskol near Chinari close to this side of the Line of Control enters the 10th successive day on Wednesday, the United Nations representatives will hold talks with the protesters at the site of the protest sit-in at Chanari, close to the LoC in AJK’s capital district of Muzaffarabad on Wednesday, a JKLF spokesperson has said.
Protestors were on hunger strike demanding incumbent government of Azad Jammu and Kashmir to open the main road from Muzaffarabad leading to occupied Srinagar – letting them to express solidarity with the suffering brethren of the bleeding Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir state, according to the spokesperson.
Spokesperson of JKLF Rafiq Dar said while addressing protesters at the site of the sit-in at Chanari on Tuesday that no any law restrict the people of Kashmir to cross Line of Control, “We are free to move anywhere in Jammu and Kashmir and it’s our right being a state subject holder” he said. He maintained that our demands are to present our resolutions to United Nations mission in Kashmir besides representatives of P5 members.
“our brethren in Indian Occupied Kashmir are suffering Indian atrocities under lockdown and continuous Curfew since 5 August” Rafiq Dar said. “we have given the deadline of hunger strike till Wednesday, if government does not open the obstacles then we will be compelled to break these obstacles” Dar added. Moreover, the diplomatic representatives of JKLF presented 50 resolutions to UN seeking their attention towards Kashmir issue. UN headquarters directed their representatives in Islamabad to go to Muzaffarabad and talk to protesters. JKLF Spokesperson invited the heads of all political parties to join them in Dialogue session with UN to show the unity to the world the Kashmiri are on one page pertaining to Kashmir freedom of movement. JKLF started their March on October 4 from Bhimber and marched towards Muzaffarabad and then they reached to LOC near Jiskol about 6 Kilometers from LOC where they sat and now started hunger strike demanding federal and state governments to fulfill their demands.