JKLF files nomination papers for AJK Legislative Assembly

RAWALPINDI—Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) headed by veteran Kashmir freedom-fighter Amanullah Khan has filed nomination papers for 33 out of 41 Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly seats under strong apprehension that all these nomination papers might be rejected.
It needs to be stated here that JKLF demands re-unification and complete independence of the divided Jammu
Kashmir State with a democratic, federal and secular system of government and having friendly relations with all its neighbours specially with India and Pakistan.
It may be recalled that nomination papers of pro-independence candidates have been rejected in the past too under the pretext that concerned law accepts nomination papers of only those candidates who declare that they want entire Jammu Kashmir State to become part of Pakistan.
It is interesting to note that in Indian occupied part of the disputed State too, the candidates for elections to the State Assembly and Indian parliament have to declare solemnly their allegiance to the constitution of India which considers the entire Jammu Kashmir State as constitutional parts of India.
In other words, both India and Pakistan want Kashmiris to be their subjects irrespective of their own aspirations. It is equally interesting that, instead of claiming its proprietorship, both India and Pakistan stand committed to concede right of self-determination to the people of Jammu Kashmir State. These commitments had been made by both even at the highest international fora (including UN), to each other and to the people of Jammu Kashmir.
Meanwhile in the light of these bitter facts JKLF is of the view that both India and Pakistan are interested only in the proprietorship of the economically and strategically important land of the vast Jammu Kashmir State and not in the whishes and aspirations of its 15 million inhabitants, more in number than the individual populations of as many as 132 independent nations of the world.—Online