Saichen Avalanche is shocking──Muhammad Farooq Rehmani

Islamabad: 09 April, 2012: Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People's Freedom League Muhammad Farooq Rehmani has expressed shock over the  occurrence  of a devastating avalanche engulfing  an entire camp of the Pakistan army in Sakardu on Saturday. It was a sad day for Pakistan as the army lost about 124 soldiers deployed at remote northern border with India since 2 decades. The battalion headquarter of the Northern Light Infantry (NLI),an operational regiment based in Gilgit-Baltistan, was situated at the urban region of the Gayari. Eleven were civilians among the casualties suffered in this remote area billed as the world's highest battleground near Siachen. The victims belonged to  the  NLI operational sub-division of Northern Scouts, Gilgit Scouts, and Karakorum Scouts. The 11 civilians were reported to be Ministry of Defense (MOD) official. The intense rescue efforts were under- way on  Sunday, and the soldiers were braving inclement weather without any headway.

Muhammad Farooq Rehmani lauded the sacrifices of the soldiers, paid glowing tribute to their courage and expressed sympathies with their families and prayed to Allah for eternal blessings of the avalanche-buried warriors. 

Christof Heyn's statement substantiated our views - Farooq Rehmani

Islamabad 01, April 2012: Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People’s Freedom League Muhammad Farooq Rehmani, has warmly hailed UN Special Rapporteur Christof Heyn’s preliminary statement saying that “the Armed Forces Special Powers Act allows the state to override rights and has no role in a democracy.”

Fai's sentence shocking -Muhammad Farooq Rehmani

Islamabad:01 April,2012: The Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People's Freedom League, Muhammad Farooq Rehmani has expressed  great shock over the jailing sentence of two years by a US Court against  Dr. Gh. Nabi Fai, who was lobbying for a peaceful resolution of Kashmir, and for the restoration of basic human rights of the Kashmiris as an American citizen of Kashmiri descent for the past several decades in America, believing in the US capability to facilitate a peaceful dialogue between the two Atomic powers of South Asia. Criticizing the latest sentence of a District US Court against  Ghulam Nabi Fai he said that it would hurt the Kashmiris across the disputed region sending bad message, and giving setback to conflict resolution process on Kashmir issue.

 He said that the sentence passed by a US Court also raised some pertinent questions about lobbying standards in the West, which Kashmiri lobbyists might be asked to respond in the fast-track world of India-Pakistan links and interests, especially when there were no similar checks upon India's overt and covert activities against the basic Kashmiri demands in the West and US. 

The sentence further sends an alarm- note to the Kashmiris around the West who are in deep waters; both after Indo-Pak CBMs not Kashmir-related human rights issues and strained Pak-US relations after the US's Abbotabad operation and growing defense partnership between the US and India,"  he maintained.