About

(freedom fighting organization of Indian occupied Kashmir)

Our Demand Freedom Our Goal Right of Self determination

Jammu & Kashmir People’s League [Now People’s Freedom League] (JKPFL) was founded by zealous young Kashmiri Freedom fighters in Srinagar on Oct. 1, 1974.
Seventies were the years of confusion, crisis and cross roads; Pakistan was divided into two parts; Indo-Pak war 1971 had ultimately led to Simla pact; in 1972 which did not mention Kashmir as a tripartite issue between India, Pakistan and Kashmiris and by November, 1974, Sheikh Abdullah the god father and Mirza Afzal Beig the founder president of J&K plebiscite front, were ready to enter into an agreement with Indra Gandhi after years of parleys between G.M. Parthasarthy,the representative of Indian Prime Minister and Afzal Beig representative of Sheikh Abdullah.
The Delhi – Srinagar parleys turned Kashmir into a State – Center issue, overlooking the dimensional character and great human sacrifices of Kashmiris for their inalienable birth right the right of self-determination, since 1947.
The Delhi Agreement aimed at only changing faces of power in Srinagar without giving recognition to great national struggle for freedom of Kashmir.
After the agreement between Congress and plebiscite leadership, there was no daring political Voice to speak truth and reorganize the freedom struggle. People were upset and disgusted with the traditional leadership and they looked for new massage of hope and light.
A group of young Kashmiris who latter formed J&K Peoples League, were already in the field of struggle under some Student and Youth organizations and they had suffered in Jails and torture Cells of Indian Government in Jammu and Kashmir. They responded to the call of the hour and accepted the challenge of the Indian Government.
Thus, the people of Kashmir launched anti-accord and anti-Abdullah movement everywhere in Kashmir and demonstrations/Protests became order of the day. The newly formed J&K Peoples League became champion of the fresh wave against both Abdullah & India.
It was here that Shaheed Ghulam Muhammad Bulla a young worker of J&KPL in Sopore, while leading an anti-accord demonstration came under heavy lathicharge of Police and was Captured. The young boy was tortured in the local Police Station and then shifted to the central Jail Srinagar, where he was tortured to death on 15 Feb, 1975.
This led to a chain of protests in Kashmir. The movement of plebiscite was not allowed to be buried after the burial of pro-Abdullah plebiscite front. One year after the formation of J&K peoples League the whole of occupied Kashmir observed one day historical strike on Feb.28,1975 against the Delhi agreement and life came to standstill throughout the state.
This gave new turn to events; new hope was kindled in every heart and pact between Indra Gandhi and Sheikh Abdullah was rejected with anger and hate, by the people of Kashmir.
Henceforth, J&K Peoples League became the voice of freedom in Kashmir but at the same time a target object of India. All the Indian intelligence agencies were given red signal to watch and crush the organization by draconian laws.
Our organization was not allowed to campaign peacefully and undeclared restrictions were imposed by Police and agencies on this party. Everywhere workers/supporters of J&KPL were arrested, put behind bars or in torture cells, where physical/mental torture was inflicted on them and fake criminal cases were filed against our supporters in courts. This led to economic break down of our workers everywhere But, the Peoples League would not knelt in any situation.
Despite Indra Gandhi and Abdullah pact, India could not bring Kashmiris into her fold. Therefore, Indian rulers and their camp follower paid greater attention to nude video/wine culture and hallucinogenic mores and modes,as against progressive national values. People would not have wondered about these conspiracies in the previous regimes but in the new Government of Sheikh Abdullah they were astonished because the new ruler had preached moral and religious lessons to his people and used to begin his public speeches with a full recitation of Sura Al-Rehman before his new assignment as chief minister.
drug addicting / peddling and wine selling / drinking spread from tourist areas to villages and increased Juvenile delinquency even in simple, poor & peasant socities. The new accord Government of Abdullah instead of dredging away corruption, drug and wine menace, and crime and black money, herself fell into this dirt. Not only this but, on 26 July, 1980 Indian army units of Srinagar came out of their camps and ransacked, looted, humiliated and killed people during the night.
Jammu and Kashmir Peoples League could not act as a silent spectator to this deterioration and corruption and tyranny. The party launched anti-liquor movement in 1981. It started from Islamabad (Anantnag) in the south and in no time spread to North and Shook Bandipore, Sopore and Baramulla. People gave full support to the anti-liquor movement of this organization and thus, P.L contributed to public awareness against drug   peddling in early eighties. But, the short sighted administration of Sheikh Abdullah used preventive detention laws and Police rounded up workers & supporters of J&KPL under fabricated allegations. However, the movement laid a healthy impact on the morals of youth.
The educated unemployment problems were posing a great threat to so-called stability and lofty economic/political claims of the new puppet rules of Kashmir, so they would not mind if people fell in drug addictions & sought refuge in escapist philosophy of life. Therefore, Abdullah administration’s harsh treatment with the supporters of Peoples League and its movement was understandable.
In Oct.1983, the Government of India arranged one day cricket international between India/West Indies. This test match was first of its kind in a disputed region like J&K. The Peoples League objected to this on the ground that the Government of India or Farooq administration had no authority to arrange any international test match on the disputed soil of Kashmir. So, the J&K peoples League declared its opposition to playing of one day cricket international in Srinagar. The party appealed to the international community, the UN to stop India from hosting international match in Kashmir. The government of India did not withdraw her decision to arrange one day cricket international, and the Peoples League asked the people to demonstrate full resistance against the decision of the Delhi/State Government.
Consequently, peoples in thousands gathered in the Sonawar Stadium on the eve of the match and collectively displayed their anger/hate against Indian and India cricket team. This was an unprecedented but peaceful protest in the stadium, which not only frustrated Indian cricket team, but sent unequivocal message of Kashmiri thinking to world in general and India in particular.  The slogans raised in the stadium by thousands of people demanded of India – “Quit Kashmir” and “Hold Plebiscite under UN auspices”.
Immediately, the Farooq Abdullahs administration at the behest of Indian government launched a massive drive against Kashmiri youth particularly the workers of Peoples League following the cricket match and hundreds of workers and leaders of this organization were put behind bars/torture centers, under blind laws, such as the J&K public safety Act, unlawful activities Act, etc.  The arrested workers were sent to far flung jails of the Jammu division.
The tyrannical process of imprisonments prosecutions and torture against this organization continued unabated ahead of 1990s mass uprising by the people of Kashmir.
The Jammu & Kashmir Peoples League played an important role with great enthusiasm and dedication to strengthen present uprising of Kashmir. It laid more stress on motivation and right orientation of freedom fighters in the heydays of this intifada.   It also warned of enemy agents, conspirators, greedy people and gun/drug peddlers and vested interests to keep the movement of freedom fighters in disciplined shape.
Jammu & Kashmir Peoples League was banned by ex-governor Jagmohan in 1990, when occupied Kashmir was declared a disturbed area under the J&K disturbed Areas Act.   Today, this organization has spread its movement across the cease fire line in AJ&K and Pakistan, to gain support and co-operation of the people of Azad Kashmir and Pakistan.
Hundreds of the workers and supporters of J&K Peoples League are stil languishing in Jails and interrogation centers of occupied Kashmir and the drive to arrest, prosecute and kill its sympathizers, is continuing ruthlessly in occupied Kashmir.
The Jammu & Kashmir Peoples League works among students & youth also. Its student’s wing is called Muslim Students League.  The party works equally among women and a woman wing of J&K Peoples League works for humanitarian mission.
The party runs some schools and relief units in the occupied Kashmir. Elementary education is imparted to students and relief is distributed among the families of martyres and victimized Kashmiris.
Mohammed Farooq Rehmani, the present chairman of J&K Peoples took over as the chief of this organization in July 1978 and is leading the party amidst trials and tribulations of grave nature.  He suffered long imprisonments and interrogations between 60s and 90s.
He also framed constitution of Peoples League in 1978 and it was passed by the central Council in 1979. Kashmir is a disputed region under international laws and UN resolutions, since 1947, and the aims and objectives of J&K Peoples League attach central importance to the core issue of freedom of the people of Jammu & Kashmir. The struggle of freedom is to be carried within the framework of Islam and the right of self-determination as incorporated in the UN charter and resolutions on Kashmir.
The manifesto of J&K Peoples League was written by Muhammad Farooq Rehmani chairman of the party in 1991, based upon guiding principles of struggle for freedom and revolution.  It is a comprehensive document of theory and policy, produced by a freedom fighting organization of Kashmir.
Both its constitution and manifesto call for a disciplined, motivated and vigorous struggle for freedom on the basis of love, solidarity and communal harmony.    Unity among all Muslim schools of thought, non interference in each others religious practices & beliefs and peace and justice for non-Muslims inside Kashmir, is the guiding principle of Jammu & Kashmir Peoples.
People’s League has renamed in April 22, 2003 as People’s Freedom League