His Excellency Mr. Antonio Guterres
Secretary General United Nations,
UN HQ, New York, NY 10017 USA. Email: [email protected]
Subject: Requesting your kind attention and appointment of a special representative to meet us and receive our special memorandum for His Excellency at UNMOGIP office Muzaffarabad, AJK on 28th June, 2022.
His Excellency, Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) has organized a three day and night long peaceful protest march in AJK against the political victimization of Mr. Muhammad Yasin Malik, the most popular peaceful pro-freedom political leader of Jammu Kashmir, by the government of India, and against the silence of International community, especially the UN, over the gross human rights violations perpetuated by Indian forces in Indian Occupied Jammu Kashmir (IOJK).
Excellency, Yasin Malik is the Chairman of JKLF who was illegally arrested on 22nd February, 2019 by Indian authorities from his residence in Srinagar-The Capital city of Jammu Kashmir. He was slapped with a draconian law of Public Safety Act (PSA) and shifted to Jammu Jail on March 7. Later in the month of May, 2019 he was again shifted to New Delhi and handed over to notorious Indian Investigation Agency NIA. On witnessing their inhuman and unlawful attitude at NIA headquarters, Yasin Malik on the evening of 10th May, in protest underwent indefinite hunger strike that ultimately concluded on 22nd May in a local hospital in New Delhi after the intervention of a judicial magistrate who ordered him shifting to infamous Tihar Jail under judicial lock up. Since then Yasin Malik is lodged there in solitary confinement, and besides opening of some more than three decades old cases, new fabricated and politically motivated cases were filed against him by NIA heard in their special court.
Excellency, the indifferent and unlawful behavior of the judge of the special court forced Yasin Malik to lodge a protest and withdraw his defense lawyer in early 2021. Since then he himself, with utmost honesty and truthfulness, argued and confronted every accusation filed against him by NIA. Unfortunately, on the directions of Mr. Modi led government of India, the special court on 25th of June, 2022 unfairly under the guise of totally concocted cases sentenced him rigorous life imprisonment. Since then the people of the State of Jammu Kashmir from both the sides of the ceasefire line and abroad are up protesting this unfair sentence against their national hero.
Excellency, people in and outside the State, mostly in USA, UK and Brussels have been protesting against the injustice met with their beloved leader, so that the international community, especially the UN and its relevant institutions, play their role in his early release, in the resolution of Kashmir issue and in saving precious lives of people in IOJK at the hands of Indian forces.
Excellency, Yasin Malik has been struggling for the peaceful resolution of the internationally recognized Kashmir issue for which he and his party have rendered unprecedented sacrifices. During this process, besides decade’s long frequent interactions with different political shades and civil society of India, he has held parleys with almost seven sitting and former PM’s of the country that includes Late Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Dr. Manmoham Singh. He visited USA, UK and Pakistan, and held public and official meetings, and TV talk shows besides delivering lectures and speeches at different universities and prestigious policy making institutes of these countries that contributed a lot in building pro peace and pro dialogue constituency in India and Pakistan.
Excellency, looking at what happens to such a tall political leader of the State at the hands of India, JKLF in this regard have announced to organize a peaceful march from district Bhimber to UNMOGIP office Muzaffarabad-The Capital city of Pakistan administered Jammu Kashmir, known as Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK), from 25th to 27th of June, 2022. This long march protest call, during an All Parties Conference (APC) held on 15th of June in Islamabad, have been supported by all the political parties of AJK. The caravan with thousands of protesting Kashmiri men, women and children on reaching to UNMOGIP office Muzaffarabad will hold a sit-in there until Your Excellency’s special representative meets the protesting leadership and receives a very important memorandum for His Excellency.
Therefore, Your Excellency is requested to appoint a special representative to meet the JKLF leadership at the protest site outside the UNMOGIP office in Muzaffarabad on 28th June, 2022 so that our protest ends at earliest before any untoward happens with the enthusiastic and angry protesters, and that our humble appeal reaches to Your Excellency.
We thank you.
Sincerely;
Muhammad Rafiq Dar? Saleem Haroon? Sardar Javed Hanif?? Sajid Siddiqi
Sardar M. Anwar Khan