India bans pro-independence group JKLF in Kashmir

[Kailash Kumar]

India bans pro-independence group JKLF in Kashmir

Zahid Rafiq

22.03.2019

SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir

Indian government on Friday banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), a pro-independence group, for “promoting secessionist activities” in the disputed region.

“The central government today declared JKLF as an unlawful association under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. This is in accordance with our policy of zero tolerance against terrorism,” India’s Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba told the media.

“JKLF is involved in anti-national and subversive activities intended to disrupt the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India,” India’s Home Ministry said in the order banning the group.

Yasin Malik, head of the major pro-independence outfit, has been under arrest since last month.

The ban on the JKLF is part of the recent crackdown by India on pro-independence groups in the region. Last month, Indian government banned the socio-political and religious organization Jamaat-e-Islami, and arrested over 300 members of the group and other pro-independence activists.

The decision for the ban on the JKLF was announced after a high level security meeting headed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The resistance leadership in the region denounced the ban and said it would not change the political reality of Kashmir.

“Strongly denounce the ban on JKLF after JeI [Jamaat-e-Islami]. Such anti-Kashmir tactics will not change the reality of the Kashmir issue nor the urgency to resolve it,” Kashmiri top cleric and Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar tweeted.

Jammu and Kashmir, a Muslim-majority Himalayan region, is held by India and Pakistan in parts and claimed by both in full. A small sliver of Kashmir is also held by China.

Since they were partitioned in 1947, the two countries have fought three wars -- in 1948, 1965 and 1971 -- two of them over Kashmir.

Also, in Siachen glacier in northern Kashmir, Indian and Pakistani troops have fought intermittently since 1984. A cease-fire came into effect in 2003.

Some Kashmiri groups in Jammu and Kashmir have been fighting against Indian rule for independence, or for unification with neighboring Pakistan.

According to several human rights organizations, thousands of people have reportedly been killed in the conflict in the region since 1989.

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[El Sidd]

“promoting secessionist activities” in the disputed region.

Indian logic 101

 

[BATMAN]

Than Indian army should explain, why they killed and tortured so many generations of Kashmiris until now, when they had no legal reasons?

 

[Zee-shaun]

Cheers to worlds largest fake democracy.

 

[Foxtrot Delta]

Jlkf should be banned in pakistan as well i think. They want independant kashmir free from china pakistan and india

 

[Pakhtoon yum]

Jlkf should be banned in pakistan as well i think. They want independant kashmir free from china pakistan and india

China?

 

[valkyr_96]

Jlkf should be banned in pakistan as well i think. They want independant kashmir free from china pakistan and india

You are mistaken on the Pakistani stance on the issue of Kashmir.

 

[Great Janjua]

So what it's the Kashmir peoples choice

Jlkf should be banned in pakistan as well i think. They want independant kashmir free from china pakistan and india

 

[Peaceful Civilian]

They are freedom fighters. They just don't like India military . And they will continue to raise voice about serious violations of human rights in kashmir.

 

[Foxtrot Delta]

You are mistaken on the Pakistani stance on the issue of Kashmir.

i was takling about JKLF, the organization india banned.

China?

Aksai Chin and Shaksgam valley North of K2 mountain. under control of china. China pakistan and india control almost equal size of divided territory of Kashmir.

for reference photo of Map below:

 

[namefield_empty]

China?

Yup, remember how you folks gifted Shaksgam tract to China to display your obeisance, and the Aksai China area is under the Chinese control too.

 

[Foxtrot Delta]

Yup, remember how you folks gifted Shaksgam tract to China to display your obeisance, and the Aksai China area is under the Chinese control too.

it was a result of a friendship treaty with china in which china gave some land and we gave some land. its called treaty of friendship and good neighbourly conduct. all territorial disputes with china were settled by pakistan.

Almost every nation of the world has to end the territorial disputes with its neighbours. the areas we gave to china were of strategic importance to china for their highway and connectivity between Kashmir, Tibet and xinjiang provinces. so it was made a concession. as a result we have no dispute with china and we laid foundation of frednship and alliance with china this way.

thing to note here is territory ceded by Pakistan to china had Minimal or zero Population and is a Frost Area of year around snow fall. human population can't thrive there . but yea area is of strategics importance and now is Called People's Republic of China.

i think pakistan and india should learn from this and resolve the border disputes.

 

[namefield_empty]

it was a result of a friendship treaty with china in which china gave some land and we gave some land. its called treaty of friendship and good neighbourly conduct. all territorial disputes with china were settled by pakistan.

Almost every nation of the world has to end the territorial disputes with its neighbours. the areas we gave to china were of strategic importance to china for their highway and connectivity between Kashmir, Tibet and xinjiang provinces. so it was made a concession. as a result we have no dispute with china and we laid foundation of frednship and alliance with china this way.

thing to note here is territory ceded by Pakistan to china had Minimal or zero Population and is a Frost Area of year around snow fall. human population can't thrive there . but yea area is of strategics importance and now is Called People's Republic of China.

i think pakistan and india should learn from this and resolve the border disputes.

I agree to what you say, unresolved border disputes are like festering wounds, faster they are dealt with the better. Two points though, all stakeholders must be brought to the board for implementing such decisions. Secondly, the outcome of the frontier agreement was quite lopsided as China already exercised de jure sovereignty over the lands relinquished to it by Pakistan. However, i do understand that Pakistan had fewer options at that point of time.

 

[Sine Nomine]

I agree to what you say, unresolved border disputes are like festering wounds, faster they are dealt with the better. Two points though, all stakeholders must be brought to the board for implementing such decisions. Secondly, the outcome of the frontier agreement was quite lopsided as China already exercised de jure sovereignty over the lands relinquished to it by Pakistan. However, i do understand that Pakistan had fewer options at that point of time.

China was having no control over that area but after series of negotiations Pakistan and china did exchanged areas.
Here is full deal.
Article 1 In view of the fact that the boundary between China's Sinkiang and the contiguous areas the defence of which is under the actual control of Pakistan has never been formally delimited, two parties agree to delimit it on the basis of the traditional customary boundary line including features and in a spirit of equality, mutual benefit and friendly cooperation.

Article 2 In accordance with the principle expounded in Article 1 of the present agreement, the two parties have fixed as follows the alignment of the entire boundary line between China's Sinkiang and the contiguous areas the defence of which is under the actual control of Pakistan.

1- Commencing from its north western extremity at height 5,630 metres (a peak the reference coordinates of which are approximately longitude 74 degrees 34 minutes east and latitude 37 degrees 3 minutes north), the boundary line runs generally eastward and then South-eastward strictly along the main watershed between the tributaries of the Tashkurgan River of the Tarim river system on the one hand on the tributes of the Hunza river of the Indusriver system on the other hand, passing through the Kilik Daban(Dawan), the Mintake Daban (pass), the Kharchanai Daban (named on the Chinese map only), the Mutsgila Daban (named on the Chinese map only) and the Parpik Pass (named on the Pakistan map only) and reaches the Khunjerab(Yutr) Daban (Pass).
2- After passing through the Khunjerab (Yutr) Daban (pass) the boundary line runs generally southward along the above-mentioned main watershed up to a mountain-top south of the Daban (pass), where it leaves the main watershed to follow the crest of a spur lying generally in a south-easterly direction, which is the watershed between the Akjilga river ( a nameless corresponding river on the Pakistan map) on the one hand, and the Taghumbash (Oprang) river and the Koliman Su (Oprang Jilga) on the other hand. According to the map of the Chinese side, the boundary line, after leaving the south-eastern extremity of the spur, runs along a small section of the middle line of the bed of the Koliman Su to reach its confluence with the Kelechin river. According to the map of the Pakistan side, the boundary line, after leaving the south-eastern extremity of this spur, reaches the sharp bend of the Shaksgam or Muztagh river.
3- From the aforesaid point, the boundary lines runs up the Kelechin river (Shaksgam or Muztagh river) along the middle line of its bed its confluence (reference coordinates approximately longitude 76 degrees 2 minutes east and latitude 36 degrees 26 minutes north) with the Shorbulak Daria (Shimshal river or Braldu river).
4- From the confluence of the aforesaid two rivers, the boundary line, according to the map of the Chinese side, ascends the crest of a spur and runs along it to join the Karakoramrange main watershed at a mountain-top (reference coordinates approximately longitude 75 degrees 54 minutes east and latitude 36 degrees 15 minutes north) which on this map is shown as belonging to the Shorgulak mountain. According to the map of the Pakistan side, the boundary line from the confluence of the above mentioned two river ascends the crest of a corresponding spur and runs along it, passing through height 6.520 meters (21,390 feet) until it joins the Karakoram range main watershed at a peak (reference coordinates approximately longitude 75 degrees 57 minutes east and latitude 36 degrees 3 minutes north).
5- Thence, the boundary line, running generally south-ward and then eastward strictly follows the Karakoram range main watershed which separates the Tarim river drainage system from the Indus river drainage system, passing through the east Mustagh Pass (Muztagh pass), the top of the Chogri peak (K2) the top of the Broad Peak, the top of the Gasherbrum mountain (8,068), the Indirakoli pass (names of the Chinese maps only) and the top of the Teram Kangri peak, and reaches its south-eastern extremity at the Karakoram Pass. Then alignment of the entire boundary line as described in section one of this article, has been drawn on the one million scale map of the Pakistan side in English which are signed and attached to the present agreement. In view of the fact that the maps of the two sides are not fully identical in their representation of topographical features the two parties have agreed that the actual features on the ground shall prevail, so far as the location and alignment of the boundary described in section one is concerned, and that they will be determined as far as possible by bgint survey on the ground.
Article 3 The two parties have agreed that:

i) Wherever the boundary follows a river, the middle line of the river bed shall be the boundary line; and that
ii) Wherever the boundary passes through a deban (pass) the water-parting line thereof shall be the boundary line.
Article 4 One the two parties have agreed to set up, as soon as possible, a joint boundary demarcation commission. Each side will appoint a chairman(Chaudry Mohammad Aslam for the Pakistani side), one or more members and a certain number of advisers and technical staff. The joint boundary demarcation commission is charged with the responsibility in accordance with the provisions of the present agreement, to hold concrete discussions on and carry out the following tasks jointly.

1) To conduct necessary surveys of the boundary area on the ground, as stated in Article 2 of the present agreement so as to set up boundary markers at places considered to be appropriate by the two parties and to delineate the boundary line of the jointly prepared accurate maps.
To draft a protocol setting forth in detail the alignment of the entire boundary line and the location of all the boundary markers and prepare and get printed detailed maps, to be attached to the protocol, with the boundary line and the location of the boundary markers shown on them.
2) The aforesaid protocol, upon being signed by representatives of the governments of the two countries, shall become an annex to the present agreement, and the detailed maps shall replace the maps attached to the present agreement.
3) Upon the conclusion of the above-mentioned protocol, the tasks of the joint boundary demarcation commission shall be terminated.
Article 5 The two parties have agreed that any dispute concerning the boundary which may arise after the delimitation of boundary line actually existing between the two countries shall be settled peacefully by the two parties through friendly consultations.

Article 6 The two parties have agreed that after the settlement of the Kashmir dispute between Pakistan and India, the sovereign authority concerned will reopen negotiations with the Government of the People's Republic of Chinaon the boundary as described in Article. Two of the present agreement, so as to sign a formal boundary treaty to replace the present agreement, provided that in the event of the sovereign authority being Pakistan, the provisions of the present agreement and of the aforesaid protocol shall be maintained in the formal boundary treaty to be signed between the People's Republic of China and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

Article 7 The present agreement shall come into force on the data of its signature.

(Done in duplicate in Peking on the second day of March 1963, in the Chinese and English languages, both side being equally authentic.)

 

[Pakhtoon yum]

i was takling about JKLF, the organization india banned.


Aksai Chin and Shaksgam valley North of K2 mountain. under control of china. China pakistan and india control almost equal size of divided territory of Kashmir.

for reference photo of Map below:

What area did China give?