Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) has distinction of starting and continuing the freedom movement of Jammu Kashmir against all odds. We are Kashmiris and will never leave our land.This was stated by the chairman JKLF Muhammad Yasin Malik while reacting to recent remarks by ex-Indian RAW chief Dulat Singh who had said that Yasin Malik should leave Kashmir and settle in Pakistan.Mohammad Yasin Malik said that JKLF is an organization that has a distinction of starting and continuing the freedom struggle of Jammu Kashmir against all odds. He said that JKLF leaders and activists are not cowards who flee at the time of hardships. He said that Dullat Singh and people like him should know that when Pakistan and India signed a bilateral accord in Shimla and Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah signed a humiliating accord with Indira Ghandi and in his own sense buried the freedom movement of Kashmir, our leader martyr Muhammad Maqbool Butt who was residing in Pakistan at that time chose the path of thorns and came back to his mother land to revive the freedom struggle.
Maqbool at that time announced that the nation of Kashmir needed a worker not a leader; he left Pakistan, his children, came to Kashmir and revived the freedom struggle here. Maqbool got arrested, spent eight years in Tihar jail before being hanged in 1984.Yasin said that within 4 years of his hanging, world saw that the blood of Maqbool brought color and people of Kashmir under the banner of JKLF started a people’s revolution in 1988 and changed the course of history. Yasin said that JKLF faced every hardship but has never left the path of struggle and sacrifices.This is the history of JKLF and those outsiders who represent oppression and tyranny and are today telling us to go to Pakistan should know that we are not cowards who on seeing danger and hardships will flee and shun the path of struggle. We have and will face tyrants and oppression but will never shun the path of truth and struggle, asserted Yasin Malik. He said that Kashmiris have rendered valuable sacrifices for their freedom and Farooq Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti and their Indian mentors are telling us to forget these sacrifices and accept a status quo.
He said that Kashmiris will never accept the diplomacy of status quo. We have and will face every hardship and oppression but will never compromise on our freedom, dignity and honor, said Yasin Malik.He said that Kashmir belongs to Kashmiris and any solution that is imposed on us from outside will not be accepted by the people of Jammu Kashmir.JKLF chairman has strongly condemned the re-arrest of JKLF leader Zahoor Ahmad Butt who has been again arrested by police after court quashed his PSA. While condemning his arrest in strong words, Yasin Malik said that police and authorities have violated every rule and regulations of theirs and have unleashed a reign of terror against Kashmiris. He said that Zahoor Ahmad Butt is in jail from last many years and his PSA has been quashed many times but authorities are still caging this ailing person which is highly condemnable.Meanwhile Jammu Kashmir liberation (JKLF) has paid rich tributes to martyrs who embraced martyrdom at by-pass near Pantha Chowk recently. A delegation of JKLF led by vice chairman Showkat Ahmad Bakhshi visited Sopore where it met the bereaved family of martyr Shakir Ahmad and expressed solidarity with them. JKLF deputy organizer Siraj ud–din Mir, zonal organizer Bashir Ahmad Kashmiri and leader Gulam Muhammad Dar along with the district office bearers were part of the delegation. Leaders met the bereaved family and prayed for the heavenly aboard of great martyrs. Bakshi while paying tributes to martyrs said that theses martyrs are our real heroes and their sacrifices will never go waste. (KNS)