Who Are JKLPP?

Jammu & Kashmir Law & Public Policy is an independently run organisation dedicated to assessing the legal, political, foreign affairs and international engagements of the former state of Jammu & Kashmir, so that the region can be peacefully and democratically reinstated as a sovereign entity.

We are a group of working professionals – lawyers, doctors, academics, researchers, activists and journalists – based in different parts of the world; working to raise awareness of the political, legal and everyday struggles Kashmiris face.

What We Do

We work with a number of civil society groups to organise discussions on Kashmir as well as lectures at various universities on the legal, political and social history of the conflict in Kashmir. Our areas of engagement, research and publication focus on law, governance, policy and social issues affecting Jammu and Kashmir.

Our work also includes documentation of the history of the movement for freedom in Jammu & Kashmir to ensure that the memory of every stage of the struggle is preserved and protected from erasure and distortion.

Through our Kashmir Reading Room, we work towards developing a repository of educational material for awareness on political and humanitarian issues of the people of the Kashmir region via educational campaigns, seminars, workshops, demonstrations and art.

 

  • National and International political lobbying for Jammu & Kashmir to regain its sovereign entity status.

  • Establishing contact with foreign policy institutions to create a strategy centering the interests of the people of Jammu & Kashmir.

  • In-depth reports that empower our followers with a greater understanding of the wider social, political, economical and cultural context in Kashmir today.

  • We write and share opinion pieces and published news articles on key issues.

  • Attend and organise events and media discussions that raise awareness to the situation in Kashmir.

  • We create and share original artwork, poetry, music and other forms of activist art that highlight the situation in Jammu & Kashmir.

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The Kashmir Dispute

Jammu & Kashmir State

In 1947, Kashmir was an independent sovereign entity with a defined border, separating it from present-day India, Pakistan and China.

As a princely state, Jammu and Kashmir possessed full executive, legislative and judicial powers and had also enacted its own State-Subject laws that granted rights of permanent residence and state benefits to its constituent population.

Not a Bilateral / Territorial Dispute

The dispute is of concern to the people of the erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir. It also concerns the interests of India, Pakistan and China. Kashmir’s internal autonomy was abrogated by the Indian government in 2019 and the Indian-administered region of the erstwhile state was annexed by force.

The three nuclear-armed nation-states surrounding Kashmir are becoming increasingly aggressive. The present conflict poses a grave threat to international peace and security, with ongoing reports of serious human rights violations against the people of Kashmir.

Working Towards Peace

We believe peaceful resolution of the dispute is possible, but we need responsible and sensitive involvement from world players and the people of Jammu & Kashmir. Until then, we will defend the interests and rights of all people from the region.

Critiquing the structures of occupation and subjugation is not enough – we must prepare a detailed alternate legal, social, political and economic framework for the egalitarian world that we want to see. A system of values that will define social and economic relations of a new era for Kashmir.

“We shall meet again, in Srinagar,

by the gates of the Villa of Peace,

our hands blossoming into fists

till the soldiers return the keys

and disappear.”

Agha Shahid Ali, Kashmiri-American Poet