ISLAMABAD (PTI): The JKLF Chairmen Amanullah Khan arrested by the Pakistan Authorities following his call to cross the line of control into India on March 30 was released on April 3 from the custody after a ten day detention.
“We are keeping our program to violate the border at present under abeyance. The struggle is there but the strategy may change” Khan told reporters at JKLF Rawalpindi office soon after his release
Khan said he was kept in a rest house about 60 KMs from here and described as baseless accusations that the militant group was acting on behest of foreign powers. Khan criticized steps taken by Pakistan occupied Kashmir Prime Minister Sardar Abdul Qayyum to prevent JKLF to move across LOC.
Some other JKLF leaders including Vice-chairman Raja Muzaffar Khan Farroq Haider along with several activists were released last night in Muzaffarabad POK capital. They were arrested on March 30 or a few days before JKLF plan deadline.
POK officials said hundreds of activists of Kashmiri Militant groups were being released from district of Poonch. Rawalkot Oirpur Bagh and Muzaffarabad.
Meanwhile Nawas Sharief has lauded the “wiser and selfless measures” adopted by the POK premier Sardar Qayyum in “effectively” containing JKLF marchers.
Sharief told official news agency APP that in this endeavor the POK government had the full support of the government of Pakistan.
He said his government had adopted a “similar stand” on February 11 when first call to cross line of control was given by Amanullah Khan.
Article extracted from this publication >> April 17, 1992
