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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]
Lone and his guards were gunned down by two young assassins before they threw grenades and escaped on 21 May 2002 while commemorating the twelfth anniversary of the death of Kashmiri leader, Mirwaiz Maulvi Farooq. Eyewitnesses said that earlier in the day a group of youths arrived at the Idgah, shouting pro-Pakistan slogans, and two of them ...
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]
Maqbool Bhat (1938–1984) [2] was a Kashmiri separatist leader, who went to Pakistan and founded the National Liberation Front (NLF), which was a precursor to the present day Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF). He is called the "father of the Nation of Kashmir" Baba-e-Qaum by the locals.
Burhan Wani (19 September 1994 – 8 July 2016) was the leader of Hizbul Mujahideen, an Islamist terrorist organization and terrorist group of the Kashmir conflict. [a] He had become a popular figure amongst the local Kashmiri populace, having done so primarily through a strong social media presence, and was responsible for moulding the insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir into a youth-oriented ...
Zakir Musa was killed after an 11-hour long operation. [21] Musa was killed by security forces in an encounter at Dadasara village in Tral on 24 May 2019. [22] [23] In the aftermath of Zakir Musa's encounter, as a preventive measure to protect civilians the government authorities snapped internet services in the entire Kashmir region.
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]
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]