Shabir Choudhry
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Shabir Choudhry is a British national and a Kashmiri leader, rights and peace activist, politician, academician and writer. He helped form the Kashmir Youth Movement in 1973, the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front in 1976 and later on the Kashmir National Party in 2008. He resigned from each of these after being discouraged or opposed to the direction they were headed. He went to United Kingdom in 1966 where he continues his struggle against forces of occupation, terrorism, extremism and religious intolerance in Azad Kashmir and Kashmir through regular statements, articles, press releases, conference and videos. He is a British national as well as a Pakistani/Kashmiri national.
Political Life
Founder member of JKLF Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front
Spokesman Kashmir National Party and Director Diplomatic Committee
Chairman South Asia Watch
Founder member and Director Institute of Kashmir Affairs
Regularly takes part in the Sessions of the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva
Has addressed seminars and conferences in the British Parliament, European Parliament and other important capitals of the world on issue of Kashmir, violence and terrorism
Addressed at Cambridge University as a Chief Guest in a conference on Kashmir in 1990.
Controversy
In 2015, Choudhry applied for renewal of his overseas Pakistani ID card in London. His application was blocked by NADRA after Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) accused him of "anti-state activities" sponsored by India's foreign intelligence agency. The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) came out in support of Shabir Choudhry during this controversy.
Shabir Choudhry challenged the authorities in Islamabad High Court to prove allegations made against him.
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