JKLF Diplomatic Bureau Chief Prof. Zaffar Khan led a protest sit in at Indian high commission in London

Prof Zaffar was accompanied by JKLF leaders Mahmud Hussain. Prof Liaqat Khan, Javid Rashid and Mahmood Faiz. The sit in was organized as a show of solidarity with JKLF Quit Kashmir movement. Late Zaffar khan and others presented a memorandum to the Indian high commission.

The text of memorandum is as follows  

His Excellency Mr Ranjan Mathai:

The High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom

India House Aldwych London WC2B 4NA

2 July 2014

Dear High Commissioner,

Re: The Quit Kashmir Campaign led by Mr Yasin Malik

Excellency, the vigil by members of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front-JKLF- at India’s London High Commission today, is being held in solidarity with the Quit Kashmir Campaign,which the JKLF Chairman Mr Yasin Malik initiated on 23 June 2014. This vigil is a manifestation of our deep distress and anguish at the harsh and undemocratic treatment meted out to Mr Malik and other leaders of the JKLF in Indian held Kashmir at the launch of the Quit Kashmir Campaign.

Along with Mr Malik, over a hundred leaders of the organisation throughout Indian held Kashmir were arrested and held in custody for over a week. These arrests were madeboth at the launch of   the QuitKashmir Campaign on 23 June as well as through pre-emptive raids carried out by the police and other forces on the homes of JKLF functionaries on 22 June.

Excellency Mr Malik and his comrades were only exercising their basic and fundamental democratic right of free expression and right to peaceful assembly. And it ill behoves a democracy to throttle a peaceful activity such as the Quit Kashmir Campaign.

Excellency as you are aware that the question of Kashmir’s future status is yet to be determined by millions of Kashmiris through an unfettered exercise of their democratic will. And as the custodian of popular Kashmiri sentiment, the JKLF and its leadership will not be deterred by any amount of harsh and undemocratic treatment at the hands of your government, and will continue to lead the valiant struggle of our people through the Quit Kashmir Campaign, and will assert their inherent and inalienableright fora solution of the Kashmir issue consistent with their democratic choice.

Excellencyat a time when Prime Minister of India Mr Narendra Modi is to visit Indian held Jammu Kashmir on 4 July 2014, we on this occasionreiterate our strong resolve: that any attemptby the Modigovernment to further dilute the social, cultural and political character of   Jammu Kashmir will be met with full popular resistance through theQuit Kashmir Campaign both inside and outside Kashmir.

Excellency through you weurge the newly elected Modi government to use its popular mandateand initiate in earnest an early process for a just, equitable and lasting solution of the Kashmir issue for peace, prosperity and progress for all in the region.

For and on Behalf of the JKLF’s

UK and Europe Zone:

The Diplomatic Bureau.