Srinagar, Feb 11 (GK News): Amid violent clashes and pro-freedom demonstrations, a complete shutdown was observed on Wednesday across the Valley on the 25th death anniversary of legendary freedom fighter, Muhammad Maqbool Bhat. The strike call was given by various pro-freedom organizations and the High Court Bar Association. All the shops, commercial establishments, educational institutions and banks remained closed. Streets wore a deserted look as traffic remained off the roads.
President Obama : Kashmiris need your Help
JKLF miffed at Pranab’s statement
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman Farooq Siddiqi has rejected the assertion of India’s Foreign Minister Pranab Mukerjee that Kashmir is an integral part of India. “His assertion reflects either his ignorance about Kashmir or a willful distortion of historic, legal and political status of Kashmir.†Said Siddiqi.
Will Kashmir Be an Obama Foreign Policy Focus?
(TIME) Indian officials may be celebrating what they believe to be their thwarting of Richard Holbrooke, the new U.S. Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, but they may want to hold off on the champagne. Despite the fact that India’s behind-the-scenes lobbying may have helped ensure that the country was left out of Holbrooke’s official mandate, the Obama Administration is unlikely to ease up efforts to pressure India to come to terms with Pakistan over their long, bitter dispute over Kashmir.
PSA mightier than CM’s promise
Masrat Alam, Bitta Karate, Nanaji, Bilal Sidiqui Detained Under The Act
Srinagar, Jan 22 (GK News): The NC-led coalition is yet to complete a fortnight in office. The chief minister Omar Abdullah had promised that political prisoners with “no heinous charges†against them would be released. But the district administration has issued orders sanctioning detention of four prominent pro-freedom leaders who have already spent years in jails.  A source in the office of Deputy Commissioner, Srinagar, said the DC on Wednesday signed the PSA order against secretary of Coordination Committee and Hurriyat leader Masrat Alam Bhat, and JKLF leaders Farooq Ahmad Dar alias Bitta Karate, Muhammad Rafique Pahlo alias Nanaji, and Bilal Sidiqui.
GoI exploiting JK’s resources: JKLF (R)
To take up re-arrest of separatist leaders with HR bodies
Srinagar, Jan 08: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (R) on Thursday alleged that the Government of India had drained the economy of the State by exploiting its natural resources . “Electricity generated from Kashmir is supplied to whole of the North India while majority of Kashmiri population is facing power crisis that too in this cold winter,†Rasiq Khurshid, the chief spokesman of JKLF said while addressing a press conference here on Thursday.
JKLF challenges mainstream parties
Seek votes in the absence of troops
Srinagar, January 02, JKLF Chairman Farooq Siddiqi in a statement issued today has said that the “Indian propaganda of mass participation†of Kashmiris in the recently concluded elections is in line with its continued pattern of throwing “smoke screenâ€Â. “The orchestra of election along with the mechanism and demographic manipulation that India devised to conduct the election in a phase wise manner for a time frame of more than a month has failed to give credence to its propaganda to convince the international community that the elections can replace referendum for self-determination,†said Siddiqi.
Terming the elections as meaningless and of no consequence given that the people of Kashmir were besieged with undeclared curfews and indiscriminate use of force, he said, “The people who represent the popular voice of freedom are imprisoned. Democracy does not work when the basic human right of freedom of expression is stifled.â€Â
Coming down heavily on the mainstream political parties, he said, “The political agenda of these so called mainstream parties invariably gets reduced to personal agenda’s of leaders who head these parties understandably in a society that struggles to live in fear psychoses under the 8 lac Indian troops dispersed in civilian areas.â€Â
“Their political agenda is based on acquiring seat of power to relish the benefits of authority for personal wellbeing or the wellbeing of a selected few in the society,†said Siddiqi. “Their agenda keeps changing from time to time based on the ambience of political trend in New Delhi. The rhetoric of self governance and greater autonomy which is in close proximity to each other was abandoned when both these two so called mainstream parties separately sought the support of New Delhi.â€Â
Farooq Siddiqi further in his statement has said that JKLF challenges all the Indian “supervised and subsidised†parties to seek a single Kashmiri Muslim vote in the absence of Indian troops in Kashmir.
Siddiqi condemns continued detention of IHK leaders
The Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Rajbagh, Farooq Siddiqi has condemned the Indian authorities for illegal and continued detention of political leaders and activist in the wake of so-called elections.
Farooq Siddiqi said that it is appalling that the grounds of detentions shown against Farooq Ahmed Dar (Bitta Karate), the Chief Organizer of JKLF (Rajbagh) who has spent 17 years in Indian prisons and continues to be in detention under draconian Public Safety Act has been charged with events that occurred when he was already in prison, thus reflecting the hollowness of Indian judicial system in Kashmir.
Farooq Siddiqi showed his concern about the declining health of Saleem Nanaji the Secretary General of party in the Indian prison.
Farooq Siddiqi while speaking to Kashmir Media Service said that no amount of force, heavy-handedness or compulsion, economic suppression and human right abuse by India would alienate Kashmiris from continuing their struggle for freedom.
India must realize that with each passing day of continued occupation, Kashmiris are further strengthening their resolve to end the Indian rule in their homeland, which is reflected on each and every day through their protests on every nook and corner of Kashmir. Their resistance to Indian rule and demand of freedom is non negotiable and final which India must realize as a basis of settlement of Kashmir.
Farooq Siddiqi writes to world leaders
Srinagar, November 25 (KMS): The Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Rajbagh, Farooq Siddiqi has appealed world leaders to take proactive steps to resolve the Kashmir dispute in line with the United Nations Charter. In an open letter addressed to the leaders including Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan, Lakhdar Brahimi and Ms Augsen Sue Kyi, Farooq Siddiqi deplored that the so-called largest democracy of the world had abandoned the basic principles of democracy in Kashmir and was selective in the implementation of these principles while being filled with desire to occupy Kashmir by force.
Farooq Siddiqi congratulates Obama
Srinagar, November 05 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, the Chairman of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front Rajbagh, Farooq Siddiqi has congratulated Barack Obama over his victory in the presidential election of the United States.
Farooq Siddiqi in a statement issued in Srinagar said, “It is beyond any uncertainty that your election victory marks a beginning of new world arrangement in which change will be coupled with hope, which has manifested itself in the form of liberty and freedom around the world.â€Â