Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party
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Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party is a separatist political party
launched by Shabir Shah
on May 25, 1998. JKDFP called for tripartite negotiations between India
, Pakistan
and Kashmir
.
Political party
A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...
launched by Shabir Shah
Shabir Shah
Shabir Ahmad Shah is the founder and president of the Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party. Shah has been fighting for the rights of Kashmiris for over forty years and has spent twenty-six in prison. He is a former Amnesty International prisoner of conscience and is widely known as the...
on May 25, 1998. JKDFP called for tripartite negotiations between India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
and Kashmir
Kashmir
Kashmir is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term Kashmir geographically denoted only the valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal mountain range...
.