Fresh killings and sedition cases against Kashmiris condemned - Farooq Rehmani

Islamabad 30, Nov, 2010: Muhammad Farooq Rehmani Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People's Freedom League had expressed profound shock and condemned killings of innocent youth by police in Qamarwari Srinagar. The martyred youth in the procession hailed from Srinagar, Bandipora and Sopore and were targeted without any provocation.

He denounced sedition charges in a Delhi Court against Syed Ali Geelani, Arundhati Roy and others saying that the law of treason was not applicable to any Kashmiri fighting for the right of self determination or their Indian supporters as promised by the fathers of the Indian constitution.

On the other hand he said the Indian authorities are liable to be prosecuted for carrying on a long drawn campaign of genocide in Kashmir. He said that such victimization of Kashmiri leaders or young men or their sympathizers in India would automatically aggravate the situation and adds fuel to fire in the volatile situation of the region.

He urged on the saner element among Indians to come forward and stop their self-interested establishment from taking recourse to extreme undemocratic steps against the people of Kashmir who were engaged in a historical movement of the right of self determination and not secession from a country.

Farooq Rehmani condemns raid on house of Altaf Khan in Bandipore.

Bandipora 26 Nov 2010(PR): Muhammad Farooq Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People's Freedom League has strongly denounced an army raid by RR-14 on the house of the Chief organizer of J and K People's Freedom league Muhammad Altaf Khan at village Rampore Bandipora, where troops of RR-14 ransacked everything in the house during the search operation.

He said that the RR-14 ransackers threatened his parents on spot to dire consequences. They accused his parents of hideout facilities in the house which proved a fabrication.

He further said that the army has again retreated to its old methods of entering into the houses of political workers whom they want to prevent them from carrying on their normal and peaceful political activities.

Muhammad Farooq Rehmani reminded that on one hand India was claiming to hold negotiations with the people while on the other hand all political activities of political workers were being obstructed by way of force and coercion. 

Muhammad Farooq Rehmani denounces PSA against Rafeeq Ganai

Islamabad, 25Nov, 2010: Muhammad Farooq Rehmani Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People's Freedom League has strongly denounced invoking of dreadful Public Safety Act against Muhammad Rafeeq Ganai General Secretary of the JKPFL, who has been shifted to Heeranagar jail Jammu after several months from an interrogation centre of Islamabad South Kashmir, despite his ill-health, due to mal- treatment and unhygienic food in Police stations. 

Referring to the worst human rights conditions in the state he said that another worker of the organization Riaz Ahmad Mir was languishing in a police camp of Bandipore for the last one month, and Ghulam Ahmad Rishi a party sympathizer of the People's Freedom League was subjected to savage beating by army in Boothoo Bandipore only to break his left arm. 

He said the army and police have launched a fresh campaign of terror, torture and humiliation of people in buses and on streets beating and using filthy language against them to demoralize and prevent the people from supporting the current ''go back India slogan.'' 

He said India was hoodwinking the world by the drama of interlocutors and Omar Abdullah the puppet Chief Minister was cheating and lying by his statements. He called upon the human rights organizations the world over to examine the record of human rights crimes by India in Kashmir and force it to repeal all the draconian laws in especially the AFSPA.

Message of Muhammad Farooq Rehmani to Kashmir.

Obama's support to India's ambitions is ominous - Muhammad Farooq Rehmani

Islamabad 09 Nov, 2010: Muhammad Farooq Rehmani Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People's Freedom has said the support promised by Barack Obama US President to India for the UNSC without any assurance for the resolution of the Kashmir issue is not a good omen for peace and prosperity of India and Pakistan. Similarly, a simple reference to Kashmir as a long time dispute by Obama, and Indian Prime Minister's usual Bombay proverb linking India-Pakistan talks with it will not foresee a tension-free future for the sea of humanity living an impoverished life in the region. He said that the Kashmiris feared stepped up human rights violations by India and obduracy regarding a peaceful resolution of their issue, as the ''US agreed to remove the restrictions that were preventing India from gaining full acceptance in the exclusive nuclear club and from acquiring nuclear technology from other nations.''

He said that the Kashmir was not only an old dispute but had always simmering character along with the sacrifices of the people not related with any particular time of India-Pakistan conflict. Emphasizing the continuity of the struggle for freedom and human rights he said that Kashmir was not a dispute over property rights of some countries, rather a basic question of the rights especially the right of self determination of over 13 million human beings—the inhabitants of the region. Therefore, if America has reservations to mediate on this question, it should urge India to abandon her negative role on a tripartite dialogue between Pakistan, India and Kashmir to arrive at a lasting solution of the dispute.

Tribute to Iqbal

Muhammad Farooq Rehmani in another statement paid homage to Allama Iqbal on his 133 birth anniversary saying that Iqbal the poet and philosopher of East equally impressed West, produced intuitive poetry, moved history, law and philosophy of our times inspiring people generation after generation to revolutionize human thought in every age. He was a Kashmiri who placed Kashmir on the pages of his verses, organized and patronized Kashmir movement for freedom in 1930s.He will always shine on the horizon of classic poetry, religious thought, philosophy and politics and no age will forget his melodious and lucid verse imbued with intrinsic spiritual and moral power. Iqbal says, " Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well."

Gunmen around a Sikh Village in Kashmir

Islamabad 05 Nov: Expressing concern over cordoning of a Sikh village Hatmulla in South Kashmir by a huge number of gunmen in uniform on the eve of US president Barack Obama's visit to India, Muhammad Farooq Rehmani Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People's Freedom League said that the report is highly intriguing and dangerous. He feared it might be a conspiracy by India to malign freedom movement during Obama's visit.

Enormity of Jammu massacre 1947 cannot be forgotten – Muhammad Farooq Rehmani

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Islamabad, 05 Nov, 2010: On the eve of Jammu Martyrs Day, Muhammad Farooq Rehmani Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People's Freedom League has paid glowing tributes to the great sacrifice of martyrs of Jammu, who were massacred enmass on 06 November 1947 by RSS terrorists with the connivance of armed forces of the Dogra ruler of Jammu and Kashmir. He said that the enormity of the horrendous crime had shocked the people of Kashmir but it was their Islamic perception of humanity that had kindled the torch of religious tolerance protecting the non Muslim minority of Kashmir. Reminding the role of the invading Indian army during those dark times Muhammad Farooq Rehmani said that the massacre of Muslims in Jammu took place under their very nose falsifying Nehru's claim of protecting life, honor, and property of the Kashmiris. He said that the criminal groups and organization behind this crime must be made accountable and punished even today like war criminals of World War II whom Europe had neither forgotten nor forgiven.

Muhammad Farooq Rehmani also condemned an attack by RSS hooligans on Hurriyat leader Shabir Ahmed Shah when he was addressing a press conference after his release in Jammu. He also condemned India for not allowing Prof Richard Shapiro an academic of the United States to visit Kashmir for taking stock of the current human rights situation in the turbulent region.

Ban on peace activists condemned by Farooq Rehmani

Islamabad 4, Nov: Muhammad Farooq Rehmani Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People's Freedom League has strongly condemned India's step to prevent US piece activist Dr. Richard Shapiro from entering into Kashmir terming it as another proof of fearing truth disclosures regarding state terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir.

More Hurriyat arrests condemned by Muhammad Farooq Rehmani

Islamabad 03/11/2010(PR):Muhammad Farooq Rehmani Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People's Freedome League has condemned arrest of The Mass Movement leader Mulvi Basheer Ahmad and rounding up of aged  men  for the activities of their sons in different parts of Kashmir.

He expressed concern over the deteriorating health of the APHC leaders Ashraf Sahraye,Muhammad Rafeeq Ganaie and Massarat Alam in prisons.

He feared that the kashmiris were subjected to a terrible form of torture and vengeance by  India's loyalist Umar regime; Ashraf Sahrayee was languishing for long in prisons, and Rafeeq Ganaie was  being detained repeatedly despite his acute illness.

''Under the prevailing conditions, who will expect peace and justice from a bunch of hypocrites of the State establishment, ''Farooq Rehmani asked. He said that the generation was fed up of India and Indian stooges to the extent that no sermon would lure them towards the interlocutors of Delhi.  

Attack on Arunadhati Roy condemned by Farooq Rehmani

Islamabad, 02 November[PR]: Muhammad Farooq Rehmani Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People's Freedom League has condemned attack on Arundhati Roy and besieging of her Delhi house by RSS hooligans for the latter's candid views on Kashmir, as sheer vandalism and frustration, and   said the wave of sympathy would sweep across India; Indians by and large would realize inherent danger to their country by holding Kashmir forcibly for long.

He said Arundhati Roy's impressions were not new, she as an advocate and a writer for a noble cause had reached out to the oppressed people of Kashmir and was acting on her conscience recalling  what had been promised with the people by Indian leaders in the past.

 He said the presence of India in Afghanistan would never help India fulfilling her unholy dream, rather it could prove ominous for India. ''An honest advice should suffice: pack up and leave Kashmir to Kashmiris.'' Farooq Rehmani urged on India.