Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) is the most known organisation of Kashmiri patriots struggling for re-unification and complete independence of Jammu Kashmir State divided since 1948. About 100 patriotic Kashmiri lawyers, journalists, intellectuals and political workers assembled in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on May 12, 1963 when India-Pakistan talks on Kashmir Issue were going on and permanent div
ision of the State was being discussed during these talks. Kashmiri patriots, after discussing the situation resolved that if India and Pakistan wanted a solution of Kashmir Issue other than implementation of the UN resolutions, it should be re-unification followed by complete independence of the divided Sate and not its permanent division. They made this demand through a Press Conference and formed a party named Kashmir Independence Committee (KIC) to start a movement to achieve that objective. The Indo-Pak Talks failed hence the KIC also became inactive. In April 1965 an organisation called Jammu Kashmir Plebiscite Front (JKPF) was formed in Azad Kashmir and most of the senior members of KIC were elected its central office- bearers. The Plebiscite Front demanded unfettered right of self-determination including right to complete independence of the whole of Jammu Kashmir State. In August 1965 some enthusiastic members of JKPF, after its central body refused to include armed freedom struggle in its manifesto, formed an underground organisation namely Jammu Kashmir National Liberation Front (JKNLF or only NLF) that aimed at ‘struggling through all possible methods including armed freedom struggle to achieve for the people of Jammu Kashmir State a position in which they determine their future as sole masters of their homeland. JKNLF was later made armed wing of JKPF. JKPF had also been established in England by some people from Azad Kashmir who were working there. On May 29, 1977 the JKPF of England decided to change its name and its constitution. It was re-named as Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) and its manifesto included demand for complete independence of the State. JKLF was established in continental Europe, USA and the Meddle East by 1981 in Azad Kashmir and Pakistan in 1982 and Gilgit Baltistan and Indian occupied Kashmir in 1987. Mr Amanullah Khan the present Supreme Head and former Chairman of JKLF is the only person who played quite important roles in formation, working and development of all these four organisations which have a common ideology but were formed in different names in different circumstances......
