...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it
Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Yasin Malik
...chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region...in two more "three decades old fictitious cases in a clear attempt to politically victimise him and forcing him to observe hunger strike unto death".
In a statement, the Foreign Office said Malik was already serving a life sentence awarded to him after a "sham trial" by an Indian court on May 25, 2022.
"Yasin Malik is also being denied the right of personal appearance in the ongoing trial, in complete contravention of legal and democratic norms," the FO regretted.
The statement said India had employed judiciary as a tool to damage the morale of Kashmiris by subjecting their leadership to "flagrant prejudice".
The FO pointed out that Malik, having been left with no legal recourse, eventually took the "desperate decision of going on a hunger strike unto death from July 22, 2022."
The inhuman incarceration of Malik, his sham trials under fabricated cases, his fallacious conviction and the malfeasant attempts at defiling the legitimate struggle of the Kashmiris for their right to self-determination as "terrorism" is nothing but further corroboration of India’s known credentials of being a serial violator of human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
, the FO said.
"The Kashmiris’ struggle for the right of self-determination is indigenous and cannot be dampened by the draconian strong-arm tactics of the Indian government."