Press release, 2nd February, 2000
JKLF members all over the world are to
commemorate Maqbool Butt Shaheed
anniversary on 11th February.
JKLF in
Srinagar is to announce a program of activities for the day in
due course but
in Azad Kashmir various jklf branches and allied
Kashmiri pro-independence
groups are to hold joint rallies at district
level.
In London, the
JKLF UK-Europe will hold a mass demonstration on Friday,
11 February, at
India House, Aldwych, London where jklf members
thoughout the UK will join
annual picket to protest against the Indian
government's hanging of Maqbool
Butt Shaheed 16 years ago.
on 12th February, The USA chapter of the JKLF
will hold a special
commomerative meeting at 4pm in the Nashemun Restuarant
in Brooklyn,
New York.
JKLF leaders from AK,IHK and UK are expected to
speak at this meeting.
Other pro-independence Kashmiri groups such the
Kashmir Freedom
Movement and National Liberation Front are expected to also
take part
in the demonstrations meetings.
On 13th February, another
Kashmiri nationalist group the Peoples
National Party is to hold a rally in
Birmingham and at the following
Luton branch of JKLF UK/Eupope will hold a
commemorative meeting where
JKLF leaders from
AK IHK are expected to
speak. ENDS
Sagir Ahmed
{Press Secretary, JKLF UK/Europe)