Sacrilegious acts have deeper ramifications on Kashmir - Muhammad Farooq Rehmani

Islamabad, 30 Jun, 2012: The Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir People's Freedom League Muhammad Farooq Rehmani has expressed serious apprehensions regarding the acts of desecrating shrines, mosques, Qur'an and other holy relics, one after the other in different parts of Kashmir, believing to have been manipulated to enmesh the people in communal frenzy and sowing seeds of hatred, between Muslims and non-Muslims but also amongst the Muslims themselves. He feared that the enemies and vested interests in Kashmir were in league to divert the attention of the world from an unresolved imbroglio and the right of self-determination to the devil's prejudices.

Muhammad Farooq Rehmani felt that the backlash could be unimaginable and it had regional and international ramifications for the future of Kashmir and peace. "It could mar ability of the stake-holders to resolve the dispute peacefully and honestly," he said.

Muhammad Farooq Rehmani said that the communal harmony in these confusing and dark times was so crucial and indispensable to the movement of freedom; while as evil practices of desecration were aimed at portraying Kashmir in an ugly manner before the world. He advised Kashmiris to guard their national interests well and all communities, united   protect; worshiping places, shrines and relics and historical heritage of centuries. If the Kashmiris failed to act as true patriots, nobody will care for them. The movement of the right to self-determination depends on patriotism and not on opportunism.

Muhammad Farooq Rehmani urged Indian administration to lift all sorts of restrictions on normal life and stop rounding- up and prosecuting innocent people in the name of law and order. The provocative prohibitory measures, he said, "have crippled economy, and purchasing- power of the people, whose vast majority lives in abject poverty while a small class of exploiters thrives at the country's resources."           

Muhammad Farooq Rehmani warned that the right of self-determination was facing a world-vide challenge of unprecedented nature that could be faced by a broad-based strategy on the basis of the UN manifesto. 

سرکردہ شہید کما نڈر نظیر احمد شاہ کو محمد فارو ق رحمانی کا نذرانہ عقیدت

اسلام آباد جون 14،2012 /جموں وکشمیر پیپلز فریڈم لیگ کے چئیرمین محمد فاروق رحمانی نے تحریک آزادی کے صف اول کے رہنما اور جموں و کشمیر جہاد فورس کے چیف کمانڈر نظیر احمد شاہ شہید کو اُ ن کے 18ویں یوم شہادت پر شاندار الفاظ میں خراج عقیدت پیش کرتے ہوئے کہا ہے کہ ایسے باصلا حیت، صا حب استقامت اور مخلص نوجوان رہنما ہمیشہ پیدا نہیں ہوتے۔ کشمیری نوجوانوں کو اُن کی زندگی اور جد جہد سے سبق حا صل کرنا چاہے اور وطن کی آ زادی کے لئے دیانتداری سے ہمہ وقت کام کرنا چاہیے۔

محمد فاروق رحمانی نے کہا کہ شہید نظیر احمد شاہ نے اپنی جو انی اور طالب علمی میں تحریک آزادی کے لئے بھرپور کا م کیا اور جب 1990ء میں اس وقت کی پیپلز لیگ کی رہنما ئی میں جہا د فورس قائم کی گئی تو وہ 1993ء میں جمال افغا نی کی شہادت کے بعد اس عسکری تنظیم کے دوسرے چیف کما نڈر بنے ،جس کو 1995ء میں الفتح فورس سے موسوم کردیا گیا ۔ نظیر احمد شاہ نے ہی 1975ء میں با نڈی پورہ میں شیخ عبداللہ کے جلسہ عام میں آزادی اور آئین اور دہلی اَکارڈ پرسوالات کئے، جن کا شیخ عبداللہ جواب نہ دے سکے ، لیکن جلسے میں خفیہ پولیس نے جھپٹ کر نظیر احمد شاہ کو گرفتار کیا اور مظاہرین نے ان کو پولیس تھا نے سے چھڑایا۔

14اور15جون 1994کی رات پولیس کی بدنام زمانہ اسپیشل ٹاسک فورس نے انہیں بمنہ سری نگر سے گرفتار کر لیااور صبح سویرے ان کی مسخ شدہ لاش باہر سڑک پر پائی گئی۔ اس کے بعد وادی خاص کر شما لی کشمیر میں مظاہرے اور تین روزہ ہڑتال کی گئی اور بھا رت سے اپنی افواج کی واپسی کا مطالبہ زور پکڑگیا۔

آج بانڈی پورہ میں مرحوم کی قبرپرفاتحہ خوانی کی گئی اورسرینگر میں پیپلزفریڈم لیگ نے سرکردہ مجا ہدرہنما کی یاد میں اپنے مرکزی دفتر پر ان کو خرا ج عقیدت پیش کیا اور تقاریب میں مسئلہ کشمیر حق خود ارادیت کی بنیا د پر حل کرنے کا مطا لبہ کیا گیا۔

ہفتہ شہداء کے سلسلے میں محمد فاروق رحمانی کا ٹیلیفو نک خطاب

اسلام آباد10 جون 2012(پریس ریلیز)

ہفتہ شہداء کے سلسلے میں اسلام آباد اَننت ناگ میں جموں و کشمیر پیپلز فریڈم لیگ کے زیر اہتمام ایک تقریب پر ٹیلیفونک خطاب کرتے ہو ئے پیپلز فریڈم لیگ کے چئیرمین محمد فاروق رحمانی نے اس یقین کا اظہا ر کیا کہ جس طرح رات کا اندھیرا ختم ہوکر صبح کی روشنی نمو دار ہو تی ہے۔ اسی طرح کشمیر سے غلامی کی سیاہ رات ختم ہو جا ئے گی اور آزادی کا سورج طلوع ہو گا کیوں کہ کشمیریوں نے گذشتہ 22برس میں غیر معمو لی ثابت قدمی کا مظاہرہ کیا اور کبھی حق خود ارادیت پر سمجھوتہ نہیں کیا ۔

انہوں نے 2010ء کے شہدا ء آزادی کو خرا ج عقیدت پیش کر تے ہو ئے کہا کہ ان کی پر امن تحریک نے ہندوستان میں تلاطم پیدا کیا تھا جس کو فوجی طاقت سے کچلنے کی کوشش کی گئی اور سخت گیر قوانین کا سہارا لیا گیا ۔ محمد فاروق رحمانی نے کہا کہ کشمیریوں کی تحریک حق خود ارادیت کے پیچھے زبردست اخلا قی طاقت ہے جس کو کسی بھی حال میں چھوڑا نہیں جا نا چا ہیئے۔ بھارت پا کستان کی آزادی کی دستاویز پا س ہو نے کے بعد اقوام متحدہ نے بھی کشمیریوں کو بھی حق خود اردایت دینے کی قرار دادیں پاس کیں ۔ بھا رت کو کشمیر پر کبھی کوئی اخلا قی یا سیاسی برتری حاصل نہیں تھی۔ صرف سات لاکھ فوج اس کا سہاراہے۔

انہوں نے کہا کہ کشمیریوں کو اپنی سیاسی جدوجہد کا پرامن روڑ میپ خود بنا نا چا ہے اور یہ جدوجہد کسی ایک دن یا ایک سالگرہ یا کسی ایک پا رٹی سے منسوب نہ ہو بلکہ یہ وطن کی ایک ایسی سیاسی اور اخلاقی تحریک ہو۔جس کے نتیجے میں ان سب مظلوموں کو انصاف ملے جن کے خاندانوں کے سا تھ گذشتہ 22برس میں جان مال اور عزت کی زیادتیاں ہو ئی ہیں۔

اس تقریب پرپیپلز فریڈم لیگ کے جنرل سیکرٹری محمد رفیق گنائی نے بھی خطاب کیا اور جدو جہد آزادی کو جا ری رکھنے کا عزم نو کیا گیا ۔انہوں نے ریاست سے تما م کالے قوانین کی منسوخی اور تمام سیاسی نظربندوں کی رہائی کا مطا لبہ کیا۔

Killers of Asiya, Neelofar, and others be brought to Justice-Farooq Rehmani

Regime is responsible before people and international law
Islamabad May 30, 2012: Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People's Freedom
League, Muhammad Muhammad  Farooq Rehmani  has paid glowing tributes
to Asiya, and Neelofar of Shopian on their martyrdom anniversary and
all those women and girls from Kupwara to Shopian, who were robbed of
honour, molested, and brutally murdered, or kidnapped and forcibly
married under gun and used as a weapons of military operations by army
and rented militants during the last 22 years of trial and
tribulation of Kashmir. He said whether  Kunan-Poshpora, Panzipora, or
Shopian or numerous other Kashmiri localities, where women and girls
were, criminally assaulted, killed and thrown into ravines or rivers
by army, police, deserve practical public support to punish their
perpetrators of crime." The dark aspect of their grim saga is that
the victims and their parents have never been heard, nor justice
done," he regretted.

Referring to those oppressed and helpless women and their parents or
guardians, he said, " they still wait for justice, but the regime  is
apathetic towards them, rather shielding the culprits by various means
and tactics. This criminal negligence is an ugly scar on  India  in
the conflict- zone of Kashmir. Obviously, not punishing  criminals
amounts to condoning their crime."

But, he said, "equally  politicians and leaders are responsible for
their failure and callousness to agitate the issue  and punishing the
scot-free brute and inhuman personnel of the regime.  Just  paying lip
service to the victims of rape or murder or both is not enough.
Although our social ethos  prevent victims of animal lust, or their
parents and brothers to come out and press for justice, but under the
circumstances  and  the underlying cause of atrocity and abuse, it's
the duty of the leadership to raise the voice forcefully, and
mobilizing  courts to trace the culprits and punish them under law.
The so-called Kashmir regime supported exonerated their guilt by
transferring the accused officers to unknown places."

Muhammad Farooq Rehmani said, "The honour of our victimized women is
very important. It  can't be forgiven. No doubt  years have passed
since fall of the tragedy over Kashmir. The double rape-murder case of
Asiya and Neelofar martyrs, or any other such tragedy of any family of
Kashmir is not a local issue .Every such issue is our responsibility,
and the responsibility of the UNO at large. Therefore, all those
culprits, criminals in any capacity  must be brought to book and
sentenced to uphold  honour of women, society and humanity."

He said, "since the regime and its civil and military brass has only
shielded criminals throughout these long years of turmoil, therefore
the time has come when legal fraternity, human rights activists and
political leaders with their rigorous campaign should take the
Shopian, Kunan Poshpora and other such heinous crimes to the
international community to punish culprits, who committed heinous
crimes against Kashmiri women in the last two decades, but are still
at large with the support of regime-high-ups."

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.