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DATE=10/6/1999
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=PAK KASHMIR (L-O)
NUMBER=2-254721
BYLINE=AYAZ GUL
DATELINE=ISLAMABAD
INTERNET=YES
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO:  Pakistani authorities have released the leader 
of a Kashmiri separatist group, a day after his arrest 
for leading several-hundred people in an attempt to 
cross the disputed Kashmir border into India.  Ayaz 
Gul reports from Islamabad, the Jammu and Kashmir 
Liberation Front organized the march to oppose the 
current division of Kashmir between India and 
Pakistan.
TEXT:  The leader of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation 
Front, Ammanullah Khan, says his activists will again 
attempt to cross the disputed Kashmir border.  After 
his release from police custody, he told a news 
conference in Islamabad another attempt would be made 
at what he termed -- an appropriate time in the 
future.
Mr. Khan condemned Pakistani authorities for using 
force to block what he called a peaceful march by his 
party workers.
            // KHAN ACT //
      The objective was to tell the world that we do 
      not approve of this line of control (dividing 
      Kashmir between India and Pakistan).  And at the 
      same time, we want to tell the world conscience 
      that we will not allow an imposed solution of 
      [the] Kashmir issue which is not based on the 
      free will of Kashmiri people.
            // END ACT //
Mr. Khan was among the 300 activists arrested Tuesday 
near Hajira in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, close to 
the heavily militarized border with India.  Police 
used clubs and teargas, and fired bullets into the air 
to disperse hundreds of marchers.
The 65-year-old Kashmiri leader says several of his 
activists were injured by the police, and that he 
narrowly escaped being seriously wounded.
The Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front wants an 
independent Kashmir and opposes the 720-kilometer 
military line of control, which divides Kashmir 
between India and Pakistan.  Eight activists of the 
separatist group were killed in 1992 when Pakistani 
troops fired to stop a similar symbolic crossing of 
the Kashmir border.
India controls two-thirds of the region and Pakistan 
the rest.  Both countries claim the region in its 
entirety and oppose the idea of an independent 
Kashmir.   (SIGNED)
NEB/AG/RAE
06-Oct-1999 11:40 AM EDT (06-Oct-1999 1540 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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