JKLF threatens to disrupt Muzaffarabad-Srinagar bus service

17 Feb, 2004

The Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) on Monday threatened to disrupt Muzaffarabad-Srinagar bus service if it was resumed before the final settlement of Jammu and Kashmir dispute.
"We would not let the bus to roll between Muzaffarabad and Srinagar before the resolution of Kashmir dispute as per the wishes of the people of Jammu and Kashmir threatened JKLF activists, Khawaja Saif-uddin, Afzal Suleria, Muzaffar Butt, and Zaid Sheikh while addressing a protest rally staged here on the occasion of resumption of Pakistan-India talks over all the issues including Kashmir dispute in Islamabad.
The rally was started from upper Adha and concluded at Aziz Chowk.
The participants were shouting slogans against the division and accession of Kashmir and bus service between Muzaffarabad and Srinagar as well.
"The aim of resuming bus service in between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad is to finish Kashmir dispute by dividing it and we do promise that we will not let the bus to move between Muzaffarabad and Srinagar," JKLF Convenor Khawaja Saif-Uddin warned.
"Pakistan and India have no right to divide Kashmir between themselves by starting bus service in the divided state with the conditions of passport and visas for the natives of Kashmir" believed Muzaffar Butt, Secretary General JKLF Muzaffarabad.
Rebuking the President General Pervez Musharraf on sell out of Kashmir, JKLF leaders warned that all steps would be taken to stop the division of Jammu and Kashmir.
They also vowed that struggle for the complete independence of Jammu Kashmir would continue.

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