- Yasin Malik
"Yasin Malik"' is the leader of the
Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (Yasin Malik) . His movement is asecularist oneYasin Malik originally came into prominence as a militant in JKLF and underwent training on arms and ammunition in Pakistan based training camps. He has admitted to have killed a group of unarmed Indian Airforce men while they were waiting for their transportation to arrive in period of 1989-1994 - in his interview with Tim Sebastian ( [cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/cta/progs/01/hardtalk/malik17jul.ram
title=BBC HardTalk, July 2001] ).He later surrendered and claimed to having turned non-violent.
Since 1995, Yasin Malik has renounced violence and calls for strictly peaceful methods to come to a settlement on the
Kashmir dispute [cite news
url=http://www.newsline.com.pk/NewsJan2005/int1jan2005.htm
title=Interview: "I have never been on Pakistan's 'favoured guests' list"
publisher=Newsline
date=2005-01-01
accessdate=2006-07-27] . Yasin Malik also considers the Hindu Kashmiris to be an integral part of Kashmiri society and has insisted on their right of return [cite news
url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/2004/01/21/stories/2004012103871200.htm
title=Come back, Yasin Malik tells Kashmiri Pandits
publisher=The Hindu
date=2004-01-24
accessdate=2006-07-27] .Some senior leaders of JKLF like Javid Ahmad Zargar, Javed Mir, Salim Nannaji, Bitta Karate, Iqbal Gundroo and others formed a united JKLF with Farooq Siddiqi (Farooq papa) as its chairman.:http://www.jammu-kashmir.com/archives/archives2005/kashmir20051223c.html
References
http://www.jammu-kashmir.com/archives/archives2005/kashmir20051223c.html
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