Kashmiri Diaspora An Excluded Identity in Britain.

To,
Ed Miliband MP,
Leader Labour Party and opposition leader in house of commons UK


Kashmiri Diaspora An Excluded Identity in Britain.

On 15th August 1947The British Paramountcy ceased to exist and the sovereignty of the Kashmir state was legally reverted to the people of Kashmir automatically This reversion of sovereignty to the people of Kashmir was in the consequences of the provision 7B of the Indian Independence Act1947.The people of Kashmir had a legal Right of Self-Determination to shape their own destinies by forming their own Government? After 64 years of this conflict between India and Pakistan fought full scale wars and forcibly divided former princely state Jammu Kashmir into four parts Indian Occupied Jammu Kashmir (IOK),Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, (POK), Azad Kashmir, Gigit Baltistan , Aksai Chin (Chinese control areas) Pakistan gifted to China in 1962.We urge to all extend to their full support for United Independent Kashmir, free of military and every sort of weapons. Inclusion of British Kashmiri as a ethnic group in Britain.We would like to draw your attention to the other forms of human rights violation on both sides of the division line in Kashmir. The worse form of the violation is to bar any person or political party from participating in elections, joining employment or issuing any publication without pledging support to state’s accession to Pakistan or the Indian Constitution. These restrictions closes all the doors for peaceful, democratic and civil forms of protest and leave young Kashmiris vulnerable to ‘illegal’ and ‘extreme’ means of expressing their aspirations for independence.
Another rights violation of Kashmiri Diaspora which has roots in Jammu Kashmir but migrated to Britain is the negation and non-recognition of Kashmiri identity in Britain and branding British Kashmiris as Pakistanis or Indians depending which side of the division they come from. It is time that British MPs ask the governments of India and Pakistan to lift undemocratic banns on political participation in democratic process, release all political prisoners, issue state subject in a card form and let all state subjects move freely across the division line, initially all the families that are divided across the division line to be free to see each other without going through years long bureaucratic processes. However, as you can see the issue is primarily a political one and needs political approach to address the issue of military and civil occupation of Jammu Kashmir by India and Pakistan that causes HR violations in Jammu Kashmir. The following measures to resolve the Kashmir Question according the will and wishes of the people of Kashmir:

Withdraw all foreign forces from all parts of Kashmir state;
Release of all political Prisoners including the mortal remains of the leader of national independence and unification movement Mohammed Maqbool Bhatt from Tihar prison Delhi;
Complete freedom of trade and movement across the division line and internationally for all the State Subjects ;
Freedom of Press and Assembly ;
Removal of all restrictions on the politics of independence for free and fair elections in the entire state for regional assemblies and a national assembly;
Making necessary arrangements for Self Determination including and with the right to independence through a fair, free and democratic mechanism.


Nadeem Aslam
Secretary General JKNIA
E-mail nadeemjknia@aol.com

Jammu Kashmir National Independence Alliance UK (JKNIA)

Thanks to Shamas Rehman for his contribution to draft above letter.

JKNIA Protest in Birmingham UK کشمیریوں کا پاکستان کےصدر آصف علی ذرداری کی آمد پر احتجاجی مظاہرہ

پاکستان کےصدر آصف علی ذرداری کی آمد پر احتجاجی مظاہرہ

جبری ناطے توڑ دو – کشمیر ہمارا چھوڑ دو

بھارتی مقبوضہ کشمیر میں نہتے مظاہرین کے قتل ِ عام کے خلاف برطانوی کشمیریوں کی طرف سے بھی احتجاج جاری ہے۔ لیکن پاکستانی مقبوضہ شمالی

( گلگت بلتستان )

اور جنوبی کشمیر (آزاد کشمیر) میں پاکستان کے حکمران خاص طور سے وزارتِ امور کشمیر جس طرح سے من مانیاں کر رہی ہے اور یہاں کے عوامی حقوق اور وسائل کا جس طرح سے استحصال کیا جارہا ہے اُس کے خلاف بھی برطانوی کشمیری خاموش تماشائی نہیں بنے رہ سکتے۔

پاکستان کےصدر آصف علی ذرداری کی آمد پر

احتجاجی مظاہرہ

ہفتہ 7 اگست 2010دن ایک 1:00 سے تین 3:00 بجے تک انٹرنیشنل کنونشن سنٹر برمنگھم بی 1 2ای اے


Saturday 7th August 2010 from 1:00pm – 3:00pm


International Convention Centre Birmingham B1 2EA


نام نہاد گلگت پیکیج کے نام پر ریاست جموں کشمیر کی تقسیم کی راہ ہموار کرنے کے خلاف


جبری طور پر منگلا ڈیم کی توسیع کے خلاف اور لوگوں کو معاوضہ دیے بغیر گھروں سے بے دخلی کی خلاف


زلزلہ متاثرین کی عدم بحالی کے خلاف


ایکٹ 74 کے ذریعے آزادی پسندوں پر انتخابات میں حصہ لینے پر پابندی کے خلاف


وزارت امور کشمیرکی سیاسی دہشت گردی کے خلاف


سڑکوں کی خستہ حالت اور زرمبادلے کی کھلے عام لوٹ مار کے خلاف


منجانب: جموں کشمیر نیشنل انڈی پنڈنس آلائنس

مزید معلومات کے لیے:


محمود کشمیری چئیرپرسن آلائنس 07882213876 ندیم اسلم جنرل سیکرٹری 07792494131

Kashmiris to held protests in UK against atrocities in Kashmir Valley

Delegations of British Kashmiri diaspora organisations from across Britain are gathering outside the Birmingham consulate of India to echo the slogans raised for many weeks in Srinagar, the capital of the Indian occupied part of divided Kashmir state. Go Go India Go Back Leave our Kashmir is the most popular demand made in continues protests organised by the Kashmiri youth across the valley of Kashmir where at least a dozen young people are killed by the Indian troops to suppress the resistance movement that was erupted in late 1980s and after years of militant clashes with the Indian soldiers has recently turned into relatively peaceful mass demonstrations against the rights violations by the Indian army men.

Since the Kashmiri diaspora in Britain is predominately made up of the Kashmiris from Pakistan I occupied Kashmir, the slogans will also likely to include Go Go Paksitan Go back Leave our Kashmir. The Protest is organised by the British based Kashmir National Independence Alliance (KNIA), an umbrella body of pro independence Kashmiri organisations in UK.

Condemning the killings of unarmed youth in the Indian occupied Kashmir Valley, Mr Mehmood Kashmiri, the chairperson of KNIA said “we understand that there is a large British population of Indian and Pakistani origin and occupation of Kashmir by the armies of two South Asian nuclear powers remains a major impediment in bringing the British South Asian communities closer. However, we would make it clear for our fellow British citizens of Indian origin that British Kashmiris’ protest in Birmingham is not against India as a country or the Indian citizens anywhere in the world but against the illegal occupation and killings by the Indian forces in Kashmir. At the same time we are not against Pakistan or Pakistanis but the occupation and suppression by the Pakistani forces in Kashmir. We would welcome to work with the British Indians and British Pakistanis to end occupation in Kashmir and for peace, progress and democracy in the whole of South Asia.”

Mr Nadeem Aslam, the secretary general of the Alliance speaking on this occasion claimed that root cause of all violence in Kashmir is the occupation of India and Pakistan. Not only that this occupation of Kashmir and arm race between India and Pakistan means that millions of Indians and Pakistanis are forced to live below the poverty line. India and Pakistan should end their occupation of Kashmir and let Kashmir be an independent country friends with both neighbours and sharing resources and opportunities for peace and development.”

The Birmingham organiser and secretary of Association British Kashmiris Mr Safdar Mir said that there are serious concerns amongst British Kashmiris about the ongoing occupation and division of and killings in Kashmir. Right now it is the generation of Kashmiri youth who born and grown up under the guns of Indian forces and militants and is trying to carry on liberation struggle through peaceful and democratic means but the Indian forces are using brutal means to crush the youth mostly in their teens and early twenties.”

The protest will begin at 2:30 on Friday 23rd July and is expected to joined by over a hundred delegates and activists from across Britain. If situation is not improved in Kashmir it is higly likely that more such protests will be organised outside of Indian Embassy in London and in downing street for asking British government to play their role and stopping the killings and playing their role in resolution of this Issue that is seen by majority of Kashmiris as a legacy of British colonial rule.

KNIA Britain has organised a protest in front of Indian consulate Birmingham UK

On Friday 23 July 2010,Time 2:30pm Birmingham UK


Kashmir National Independence Alliance Britain has organised
a protest in front of Indian Consulate Birmingham UK.



The Kashmir National Independence Alliance has organised this protest
and invited all British Kashmiris and other communities including the Indians,
Pakistanis and wider British population to oppose and expose the blatant
violations of human rights of Kashmiris in the Valley killing scores of children
and young people as well as imposing ... See more curfews and banning the Press
and Media activities.

Although the protest is organised by KNIA please do not see it as the protest of
KNIA. It is protest of all those British people who see any form of suppression,
oppression and violations of human rights as wrong and to be challenged.

So come along all especially British Kashmiris from all parties and ideologies
and towns and cities. If we manage to protest together against what we oppose
then other communities will also join us. BUT first we have to show that we

oppose occupation and brutalities in the Indian occupied Kashmir by the Indian
Occupation forces.
And we oppose the occupation and injustices by the Pakistani occupation forces
in the Pakistani Occupied Kashmir as well.

Please Bring Play cards saying Go Go India Go Back Leave Our Kashmir.
Go GO Pakistan Go Back Leave Our Kashmir; Stop Killings in the Valley
Kashmiri Children are not terrorists; End Indian state terrorism in Kashmir
Valley. And any other you can thinks of.

For further information please contact,

Mehmood Kashmiri,Chairman KNIA- Nadeem Aslam Gen.Secretary KNIA

Mob.07882213876 Mob.07792494131
E-mail mahmoodkashmiri@hotmail.co.uk E-mail - nadeemjknia@aol.com

An Enslavement Deed Karachi Pact 28th April 1949

To ,
1-Mr.Asif Ali Zardari The President of Islamic Republic of Pakistan .
2-Mr.Sayed Yousaf Raza Gilani The Prime Minister of Islamic Republic of
Pakistan.

Via:

3-Mr.Tariq Soomro Consul General of Pakistan in Bradford UK .



We the undersigned member parties of the Jammu Kashmir National Independence Alliance (JKNIA) based in United Kingdom would like to remind you on this 28th day of April 2010 that 61 years ago on this day your government imposed a so called agreement on the Kashmiri state subjects in Gilgit Baltistan regions of the State. We believe that this forced and one sided document which people of the state describe as the ‘enslavement deed’, deprived the people of the Kashmir state under Pakistani occupation of several basic political, economic, judicial, constitutional and cultural rights protection of which was the responsibility of Pakistani government under the United Nations resolutions on Kashmir.
For 61 years people of Gilgit Baltistan and ‘Azad’ Kashmir constantly protested against the Karachi Pact 28th April 1949 and demanded for this authoritarian and colonial like agreement to be abolished and replaced with an equal, fair, democratic and empowering governance system.
To support the people of Gilgit Baltistan in general and Gilgit Baltsitan Democratic Alliance (GBDA) in particular several top leaders of All Parties National Alliance (APNA), Jammu Kashmir National Awami Party (JKNAP) and Jammu Kashmir National Liberation Front (JKNLF) went to Gilgit Baltistan but have been arrested. We strongly condemn this action of the authorities and demand their immediate release and any action in future to suppress the peaceful and democratic activities by the people for their rights to be refrained.
In this context the members we fully endorse and support the following demands made by the people of Gilgit Baltistan:

1.Fully democratise the existing set up in Gilgit Baltistan by transferring legislative, judicial and economic powers to the local bodies;

2.Abolish the Kashmir Ministry and Kashmir Council;


3.Lift any restrictions on the independence politics in Pakistani Occupied ‘Azad’ Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan;

4.Restore and respect the state subject rule in all government appointments and dealings regarding the sale and ownership of any property or the resources within the jurisdiction of State Subject legislation;


5.Withdraw all the armed forces from all parts of the princely state;

6.Accept and respect the right of All Kashmir State Subjects to free movement and trade in all parts of the state including Gilgit Baltistan ;

We would like to ask your good offices to convey our feelings and demands to your government in Islamabad hoping that the government of Pakistan there will take all necessary actions in its powers to give rights to the peoples of Kashmir under her occupation and refrain from Rights violations in these areas of the Kashmir State.

Jammu Kashmir National Independence Alliance (JKNIA)