The hunger strike camps started by Jammu and
Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) in Islamabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and
various cities of the UK to express solidarity with the party Chairman,
Muhammad Yasin Malik, continued on the 2nd day, today.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Yasin Malik, who is facing life
imprisonment in false cases registered against him and lodged in illegally
detained in New Delhi notorious Tihar Jail, has announced an indefinite
hunger strike from today against the denial of justice and fair trial by the
Indian kangaroo courts.
The JKLF spokesman in a statement said that the hunger strike camp started
by the party’s Acting Chairman Raja Haq Nawaz Khan and Deputy Chairman
Saleem Haroon and others in Islamabad continued on the second day today.
Many members of the civil society visited the camp set up outside the
National Press Club, Islamabad, despite inclement weather.
The spokesman said, the hunger strike camp led by the JKLF leaders Malik
Aslam, Abrar Iftikhar and Ghazi Sajid Bukhari in Kotli city of AJK also
continued. Similarly, a hunger strike was started in Lal Chowk,
Muzaffarabad, under the leadership of district president Raja Asim Razzak in
which many workers of JKLF, youth and students are participating.
He said after Friday prayers, a symbolic hunger strike camp was also started
by the JKLF Sindh chapter outside the Karachi Press Club in which Manoor
Hussain, Shahzad Khan, Amjad Habib, Mubarak Advocate, Riaz Khan, Sardar
Zahid, Hamad, Ambassador Younis, Humayun Muzaffar and others are
participating.
Hunger strike camps have also been set up by the JKLF UK chapter in front of
the Indian Consulate in London and the Indian embassy in Birmingham in which
many party workers are participating in addition to the central and zonal
leaders. The symbolic hunger strike in front of Indian Consulate in
Birmingham has been organized in collaboration with Camp Justice for Jammu
and Kashmir.
The spokesman said the party leaders have also started a hunger strike
outside the European Union while there will be a symbolic protest hunger
strike outside the European Commission office in Brussels on Saturday (July
23).
