Nusrat Bhutto was a great champion of democracy - Farooq Rehmani

Islamabad, 26 October 2011: Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People's Freedom League Muhammad Farooq Rehmani while paying tribute to Mrs. Nusrat Bhutto former Chairperson of Pakistan People's Party and widow of the former Prime minister of Pakistan Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto has said that the deceased leader was champion of democracy in this country who ended her life after long trial and tribulations. He said that her life and struggle for democracy in Pakistan would inspire always the people of Pakistan. In her Pakistan has lost a great   leader of tireless struggle and forbearance.    

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Condolences to Pervez Imroz by Farooq Rehmani

Islamabad, 26 Oct 2011: Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People's Freedom League Muhammad Farooq Rehmani  has expressed profound grief and sorrow over the sad demise of Sheikh Ghulam Qadir father of the President of Jammu and Kashmir Coalition Of Civil Society(JKCCS) Pervez Imroz in Srinagr. He prayed to Allah to rest the departed soul in eternal blessings and grant Sabre-Jameel to the bereaved family.

 

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Security Council victory of Pakistan hailed by Farooq Rehmani

Islamabad,22 October 2011: The Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir People's  Freedom League Muhammad Farooq Rehmani has hailed the victory of Pakistan in the recent elections of Security Council for a non- permanent seat of  UNO's most important decisions executing arm. He said that Pakistan's success in the election is also her diplomatic gain ushering in an era of new hopes for the hopeless world of human rights, especially Kashmiris who want that their voice be heard and the world community   take cognizance of their plight under India's draconian and inhuman laws-- repugnant to the  Universal    Declaration of Human Rights.

Meanwhile Muhammad Farooq Rehmani said that India's fresh measures to partially withdrawing its black laws in Kashmir were not acceptable to the people as it would not make any difference in their life and never ensure basic political freedoms to all the political organizations irrespective of their views on the future of the State. He said,  " Henceforth,   when Pakistan is a member of the Security Council, she should make the human rights problem central question of its diplomacy, particularly in relation to Kashmir and every hour should be devoted to the uplifting of this holy cause of the oppressed peoples of Kashmir and Palestine."       

We Hail Anti-AFSPA Yatra from Srinagar to Imphal-- Farooq Rehmani

Islamabd:19 October,2011: The Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People's Freedom League Muhammad Farooq Rehmani has praised the Anti-Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) Yatra from Srinagar to Imphal under the banner of  "Save Sharmilla Solidarity Group" as timely and democratic to rid people of,  the neo-colonial military horrors of forced Delhi rule, devoid of any popular support. He also termed the statement of noted Social Activist Sandeep Panda very significant and encouraging for advocating the right of self- determination for the Kashmiris, and other suppressed people saying that the time is ripe for a world-wide tide of political freedom and economic equality across the globe. All the colonialists and corporate exploiters of the world must know that the uprising of humanity is the last nail in its coffin. He said India's National Human Rights Commission  (NHRC)Chairperson Justice K J Balkrishnan should not just look into the fast changing situation but it must adapt to it and translate its own word of human rights and human dignity into action. Repression in Kashmir must be brought to an end.

Reacting   on   the statement of the General Officer Commanding (GOC) of 15 Corps of the Northern Command of India  Lieutenant General  Syed Ata Hasnain at the Islamic University of Science and Technology  Awantipora in South Kashmir on Monday,17 Oct. he said "it is a military statement which points to continuous war by India unleashed against an unarmed population for the right of self- determination only."  He said the General has only disappointed his own country's jurists by saying that the issue of AFSPA  "did not even surface in their unified Command meeting." He said the army's eyes were closed towards the ground realities and India's political manipulations had become totally exposed in Jammu and Kashmir. He asked as to how long military repression could give it oxygen. He said why the Indian generals were still obdurate  upon the Disturbed Areas Act and Armed Forces Special Powers Act, from Kashmir to Manipore, when the people were up against these inhuman laws and wanted a peaceful change and peaceful solution of all the disputes. He said that by opposing scrapping of such laws of horror and murder against innocent humanity they were perpetuating savagery of terrible nature and blocking  every road to peace,  economic   progress,  prosperity and peaceful solution of a political dispute of international dimensions.

Muhammad Farooq Rehmani urged on the military brass and rulers of India to shun their colonial ways of politics and scrap all draconian laws--the Disturbed Areas Act, Armed Forces Special Powers Act, as otherwise they were givingj a license to army and police and their rented agents   for rape, kidnappings, fake-encounters, corruption, and all types of killings and humiliations in and outside of the camps. "No state however strong, can survive long by remaining in ever animosity and at daggers drawn with people." He warned.            

Interlocutors report another gimmickry of India-- Farooq Rehmani

Islamabad:14 october,2011:Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir People's Freedom League Muhammad Farooq Rehmani has termed India's interlocutors' report as a marketing gimmick to persuade people to buy fake gold in its market, but the Kashmiris are fully conscious to remain away from this latest trap. He said that although the people here had been exploited and enslaved economically as well because their trade, commerce, agriculture and industry was controlled by outsiders; but Kashmir was basically a political issue that  could not be settled without granting the right of self-determination to the State of Jammu and Kashmir. If other nations of the world can get this and exercise it under the UN Charter, why can't Kashmiris who are as good human beings as others," he remarked.

Muhammad Farooq Rehmani said that as expected before, the interlocutors had not addressed the aspirations of an over whelming majority, and the causes of decades' old turmoil in the state that was rooted in the neo-colonization policy of India in Kashmir.

He warned that the Kashmiris could neither be fooled nor tamed by trivial and superficial economic and administrative measures. They needed a hand which felt the pulse of a nation in their times of terror and torture. He said the interlocutors of Delhi had failed to achieve anything except hollowness of meetings within their regime's narrow political angle. He said the people of Kashmir were facing endless horror of military-police nature, because of their faith in the universal political rights as manifested in UNCIP resolutions and India-Pakistan pledges-nothing less nothing more. The people of Kashmir say if India has problems to hold plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir, then it should be ready to discuss the issue in a tripartite manner with the true representatives of Kashmir and Pakistan. There is no other easier and saner way to address this issue. Neither military might, nor soft- border trade or any other one sided method can satisfy the majority of the Kashmiris. It is better for India to realize failure of her military might and political manipulations in Kashmir and give up military intransigence," he concluded.   

Kashmiris will not allow Guru’s execution: Farooq Rehmani

Islamabad Oct 5, 2011: Chairman of The Jammu and Kashmir People's Freedom League Muhammad Farooq Rehmani has said that to prevent India from hanging Afzal Guru, and hush up unmarked graves' case; the Kashmiris need to give a quick and unrelenting response to India's intentions that was bent upon sending   Guru to the gallows for his innocence.

He said and urged upon a peaceful   movement by all sections of the society on human rights basis, to create awareness, and gain support of   the UNHRC and other human rights organizations for this grave issue. He said the well- wishers   of innocent humanity and human life, being certain of partiality and bias of the sentence against Guru in the prosecution's fabricated evidence should learn from Maqbool Butt's case from beginning to the end, and take every non-violent, political and legal step to save the life of Afzal Guru who had not been granted any opportunity  to rebut  Prosecution's  one sided story of attack on the Parliament of India some years back.

Muhammad   Farooq   Rehmani   said that the Kashmiris were invulnerable in their determination to fight peacefully for their just cause, and would not succumb to any pressure by India to roll- back their campaign for freedom and peaceful resolution of the Kashmir dispute. He cautioned against India's conspiracy to force the people to resort to violence; as it was adamant to abrogate draconian laws, especially the Disturbed Areas Act in Jammu and Kashmir. He said no dialogue of whatsoever status would lead to a lasting solution of Kashmir as long as India ruled with gun and military adventurism in the state.