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India wants me extradited: Amanullah Khan
By B. Muralidhar Reddy
ISLAMABAD, JAN. 10. The Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman, Amanullah Khan, has claimed that India had sought his extradition from Pakistan, and challenged New Delhi to move the International Court of Justice to prove he was a ``terrorist''.
At a news conference here, Mr. Khan declared that he was prepared to appear in the world court. He could prove all the allegations of terrorism against him to be false; if the court said he was a terrorist or that his demand for independence was not justified, he would hand himself over to India. He quoted media reports that India had got a `Red Notice' (international warrant of arrest) issued against him by Interpol and said this was not the first such instance. He accused New Delhi of entering into a deal with the Thatcher Government and getting him arrested in the United Kingdom in 1985. He was jailed for over 15 months.
He claimed that when the courts acquitted him, India got him deported from the U.K. In 1990, India got his U.S. visa cancelled and a Red Notice issued again.
In October 1993, he was arrested by the Interpol in Brussels when he was participating in a round table conference on Kashmir on the invitation of the European Parliament. India demanded his extradition, but the Belgian court rejected it and sent him back to Pakistan.
Mr. Khan said he had applied for an Indian visa in March last to attend an intra-Kashmir conference convened by G.M. Shah, president, Awami National Conference and former Chief Minister, in Jammu but it was rejected.
He said the best solution to the Kashmir problem was to reunite the divided State and make it independent. It should have a democratic, federal and secular system of government and friendly relations with India and Pakistan.
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