LAHORE, Sept 11 The Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) staged a demonstration outside the Lahore Press Club on Friday against the Gilgit-Baltistan package.

The JKLF workers displayed banners and placards on which they had written slogans rejecting the Gilgit-Baltistan package and describing it as a conspiracy against the people of Kashmir.

Speaking on the occasion, JKLF Pakistan President Syed Faisal Nazki said 29,814 square miles Gilgit-Baltistan was an integral part of Jammu and Kashmiir.

The Pakistan government had no right to decide its future, but Pakistani rulers had announced the Gilgit-Baltistan Package to please the Americans.

He said the Kashmiris had decided to reject the Gilgit-Baltistan package because they considered it an attempt to divide their motherland.

JKLF Lahore President Javed Kashmiri, provincial secretary Sardar Anwar Khan, People's Mulsim League Lahore President Farooq Azad and Voice of Kashmir President Ghulam Nabi Lone also criticisded the Gilgit-Baltistan package.

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