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PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
ISLAMABAD, SEPT 26: Despite the earlier assertion that it would take a final decision about crossing the Line of Control (LoC) next week, the Amanullah Khan-led Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) has started mobilising support urging people in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) to take part in it.
The group today urged students and youths in PoK to take part in the LoC crossing on October four "in large numbers to express their resentment on the move to make the it a permanent border between India and Pakistan", a statement issued here said.
Jammu and Kashmir students liberation front president Jamshed Mirza has also announced his support to the LoC crossing and said thousands of its activists would take part in it while another faction of the body has also expressed its support to the decision.
A JKLF spokesman, when reminded about an earlier statement that the Front would take a final decision on the appeal of the Pakistan government to refrain from the crossing, told PTI, "yes, our centralexecutive committee is meeting on September 30 to take a final decision but we are certain that our conditions will not be accepted and hence our decision to cross the LoC will stand".
JKLF wants international mediation to resolve the Kashmir issue based on uniting both parts of Kashmir and creating a Kashmiri nation, he said elaborating the conditions put by the group to call off the crossing.
JKLF had earlier expressed its apprehensions about a crackdown by Pakistani security agencies as posters and wall-writings supporting the planned LoC crossing in PoK capital Muzaffarabad had been removed. JKLF chief Amanullah Khan has also gone underground for fear of arrest, sources in the group said. Pakistan government had earlier appealed to JKLF to refrain from its plan of crossing the LoC saying it might lead to a "blood bath" as the Indian army might open fire.
The Pakistani appeal came after New Delhi asked Islamabad to restrain JKLF from crossing the LoC. JKLF has declared it wants to undertake asymbolic crossing to express its resentment over an alleged move to make the LoC a permanent international boundary between India and Pakistan.
Copyright © 1999 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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