ISLAMABAD, (Parliament Times) : Kashmiri leaders in a condolence round table conference organized by the Jammu Kashmir Liberation front (JKLF) in a local hotel in Islamabad yesterday paid homage to the martyrs of 13th July, 1931, who were indiscriminately fired upon by the forces of the then Maharaj of Jammu Kashmir in Srinagar while they were raising their voice for the resumption of civil rights of the people of the State. The participants of the conference also paid rich tributes to the great son of the soil and trade union leader belonging to the minority Pandit community of the State, Late Sampat Prakash, for the gallantry role he played for the cause of freedom and for safeguarding the national ethos between the communities of the State.
In a statement issued from the party’s central information office the conference was presided over by the vice chairman of JKLF Saleem Haroon wherein convener APHC, Mehmood Ahmed Sagar, was the guest of honor. The conference was conducted by the JKLF spokesman Muhammad Rafiq Dar. The other participants who spoke on the occasion were Abdul Rasheed Turabi (Former Head JeI, AJK), APHC leaders Ghulam Muhammad Safi, Muhammad Farooq Rehmani, Hussain Khateeb, Gen. Sec. APHC Sheikh Abdul Mateen, Hasan-ul-Bana, Syed Manzoor A. Shah, Zahid Safi, Sheikh Abdul Majid and Mushtaq A. Butt, president JK Democratic Party Ms. Nabeela Irshad Khan Adv, JKLF leaders Rouf Kashmiri, Sajid Siddiqi, Sardar M Anwar Khan, Sardar Jamsheed A Khan, Ms. Nusrat Qureshi, SLF leader Ghulam Ovais, JK Liberation League leader Advocate Dilawar Khan, lawyers forum leader Advocate Ovais Ahmed and the human rights activists Malik Aslam and Afsar Khan. The participants who attended the conference included Sardar M Afzal Baig, Abdul Qudoos, Shahbaz Abbasi, Khawaja Aneeq, Sheikh Yaqoob, Dawood Khan, Mian Muzafar Ahmed, Manzoor A Dar, Gulshan A Shah, columnist Irfan Bashir and Dr. Ataullah Din Puri.
According to the JKLF spokesman, the participants of the conference unanimously spoke about the Kashmiri people being the sole party of the dispute having the right to decide about the future status of their motherland. The speakers through a resolution adopted at the end of the conference demanded immediate and simultaneous withdrawal of forces from the entire State. The participants also demanded an immediate and unconditional release of all Kashmiri pro-freedom leaders and workers languishing in many Indian jails for years together including Muhammad Yasin Malik.
Besides Saleem Haroon and Mehmood A Sagar, all the speakers on the occasion raised their voice in favor of national unity with a common national strategy to be devised through a national dialogue among the different political and ideological forces of the State of Jammu Kashmir.
The draft of the resolutions adopted is attached with.
Resolutions adopted in a round table conference organized by JKLF on 13th July, 2023;-
Today on Thursday, 13th of July 2023, on the eve of ‘Martyrs Day’, the participants of a condolence round table conference organized by JKLF paid homage to the martyrs of 13th July, 1931 and tributes were also paid to the great freedom loving trade union leader Sampat Prakash, who passed away on 1st July. The conference was participated by political leaders, civil society representatives and human rights activists including women and student representatives.
The following draft resolution were unanimously adopted at the end of the conference:
– The participants of the conference pays homage to the martyrs of Jammu Kashmir, especially the martyrs of 13th July who laid down their lives in Srinagar during the restoration of rights movement in 1931.
– Conference pays rich tributes to the great comrade Sampat Prakash for his exemplary services he rendered for the cause of freedom and in safeguarding the centuries old Kashmiri brotherhood in the State.
– The conference terms him a great patriot and values his services as unforgettable.
– The Conference reiterates its determination to continue the peaceful people’s struggle for the restoration of the oneness and resumption of sovereignty after the reunification and national independence of the currently divided State of Jammu Kashmir.
– The participants of the conference reiterate their national stand that the State of Jammu Kashmir is historically a political and geographical unit, and reject any option short of independence.
– The conference condemns the ongoing Indian state terrorism in Jammu Kashmir and sends a clear message of not being intimidated by the Indian government’s tough policy of using force against the freedom-loving people of the State.
– The participants of the conference strongly condemn the ongoing illegal, undemocratic and inhumane behavior of the Indian government against the incarcerated chairman of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, Muhammad Yasin Malik, who was unfairly sentenced to life on the directions of the Mr. Modi led government of India under the pretext of fabricated and concocted cases filed against him by NIA, and is being brought now close to death penalty in the same politically motivated cases.
– The Conference demands the immediate and unconditional release of all Kashmiri leaders and thousands of freedom loving people, including Yasin Malik, who have been imprisoned in jails for years.
– The participants of the conference make it clear to the international community that the issue of Jammu Kashmir is not a border or territorial dispute between India and Pakistan. Therefore, as in the past, in the absence of real people’s representatives of the State of Jammu Kashmir, the problem cannot be solved only through bilateral negotiations between India and Pakistan.
– The conference expresses its determination to resist the conspiracies being hatched against the national freedom movement of the State of Jammu Kashmir from both sides of the cease-fire line.
– The legal claim of the conference is that, in accordance with the UN Security Council Resolutions (No. 91 and No. 122), India and Pakistan are bound to respect the territorial integrity of the State of Jammu Kashmir. Therefore, any move of annexation of their respective parts of Jammu Kashmir from either side of the ceasefire shall be deemed illegal, hence unacceptable to the State subjects.
– The conference calls upon the international community to play its role in providing an opportunity for a UN-supervised referendum after the simultaneous withdrawal of forces from the entire State of Jammu Kashmir.
– The conference clarifies the national position of the State of Jammu Kashmir that the people of the State are not bound by any bilateral agreement between India and Pakistan on Kashmir including the Shimla Agreement.