Plebiscite Front Mahaz-i-Raishumari | |
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| Leader | Amanullah Khan |
| President | Abdul Khaliq Ansari |
| Founded | April 1965 |
| Succeeded by | Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front |
| Political position | Called for a plebiscite on whether Kashmir should join India or Pakistan or become independent. |
The Plebiscite Front in Azad Kashmir,[1][2] also called Mahaz-i-Raishumari,[3] was founded by Amanullah Khan in collaboration with Abdul Khaliq Ansari and Maqbool Bhat in 1965. The organisation had an unofficial armed wing called National Liberation Front, which carried out sabotage activities in Jammu and Kashmir as well as the hijacking of Ganga. Amanullah Khan later moved to England, where he revived the National Liberation Front under the new name Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF).[4]
- ^ Snedden, Kashmir: The Unwritten History 2013, p. 194.
- ^
Rehman, Shams (7 May 2016), "Remembering Amanullah Khan", The Kashmir Walla, archived from the original on 9 February 2022
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Abdul Khaliq Ansari passes away, Greater Kashmir, 17 June 2013.
- ^ Schofield, Kashmir in Conflict 2003, pp. 114–116.