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Altaf Ahmad Shah (c. 1956 – 11 October 2022) was a Kashmiri separatist who was a senior leader of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference. Shah was lodged in New Delhi's notorious Tihar Jail since his arrest in 2017, and died in custody. He was the son-in-law of Kashmir Azadi Tehreek leader Syed Ali Geelani. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir Basit Ahmed Dar (also known as Basit Dar or Abu Kamran Ali ; 12 April 2002 – 7 May 2024) was a Kashmiri separatist militant commander. He was the Chief Operational Commander of The Resistance Front (TRF) following the assassination of TRF Commander Muhammad Abbas Sheikh [ 1 ] in August 2021. [ 2 ]
His ancestors had migrated from areas now part of modern-day Pakistan to Jammu and Kashmir. He also had two elder brothers. [13] [14] One of them was Muhammad Yousuf Khan, one of the founders of Tehreek-e-Islami, who died in 2016. [15] The other was Qamar-ud-din Khan, a renowned member of Jamaat-e-Islami in the Lolab area who died in 2009. [16]
In the late 1980s, when Kashmir witnessed a surge in violence, leading to the mass displacement of Kashmiri Pandits, Kundu emerged as a resilient and determined leader. Despite facing immense hardship and the trauma of displacement, he dedicated himself to raising awareness about the plight of his community and advocating for their rights. [ 6 ]
Geelani was viewed as a key separatist leader in Kashmir. [29] Omar Abdullah, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, blamed Geelani for the rise in militancy and bloodshed in Kashmir, while his father and former Union Minister Farooq Abdullah urged Geelani to follow a path which would "save Kashmiri people from further destruction". [30] [31]
Mohammed Yousuf Tarigami (born 17 July 1949) is an Indian politician from Jammu and Kashmir.He belongs to the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) and is a member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly, to which he has been elected five times consecutively since 1996, representing the Kulgam Assembly Constituency.
“Democracy stops where the boundaries of Jammu and Kashmir begin.” In an interview with The Associated Press, Omar Abdullah said India’s 2019 decision to strip the region’s statehood, its ...
Yasin Malik (born 3 April 1966) is a Kashmiri separatist leader and former militant who advocates the separation of Kashmir from both India and Pakistan. [2] He is the chairman of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, which originally spearheaded armed militancy in the Kashmir Valley. [3]