Yasin Malik who was the general secretary of Islamic Students League (ISL) crossed over to Pakistan occupied Kashmir (POK) after the 1987 state elections to receive arms training from ISI.
He has himself claimed to have received training along with 3,500 other Kashmiri jihadis at the Rawalpindi farmhouse of current Pakistan railway minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed. Sheikh Rashid accompanied Malik to the LoC multiple times between 1988-90.
In 1989 he returned to the valley and turned to terrorism militancy as a member of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF).
Murder Of Justice Neelkanth Ganjoo
Neelkanth Ganjoo, a High Court Judge and prominent Kashmiri Pandit was shot dead by three Jihadi terrorists on 4 November 1989 in Srinagar. He had earlier given a death sentence to JKLF terrorist Maqbool Bhat.
Malik is one of the accused in the murder and also purportedly confessed to killing Ganjoo in a television interview.
Kidnapping Of Rubaiya Sayeed
Sayeed, the daughter of then home minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed was kidnapped on 8 December 1899 and the government ultimately freed five jailed terrorists in exchange of her release. Malik is said to have orchestrated the kidnapping.
Killing Four IAF Officers
One of the gravest crimes Malik has committed is the murder of four IAF personnel on the outskirts of Srinagar. As journalist Aditya Raj Kaul painfully describes here, on 25 January 1990 around 14 IAF officers were waiting at a bus stop in Rawalpora chowk to wait for an IAF bus to ferry them to a nearby airport.
Then a gypsy and bike arrived at the location and five terrorists armed with AK-47 and pistols opened fire at the IAF officers. Caught off-guard, the officers ducked to the ground but the terrorists claimed four victims including Squadron Leader Ravi Khanna, Corporal DB Singh, Corporal Uday Shankar and Airman Ajad Ahmed.
The terrorists later celebrated the attack at the spot and raised jihadi slogans before fleeing. Malik was the main perpetrator behind the attack.
In August 1990 Malik was captured by the security forces and was thrown behind bars till 1994 when he finally got bail. Then he claimed to have “renounced violence and became a Gandhian”.
In 1995 a stay was granted by a single bench J&K court in the case of Rubaiya Sayeed. While he was briefly jailed on a couple of occasions he began mingling with the New Delhi crowd and by his own admission met Manmohan Singh once at a journalist’s house in 2001 and also visited the residence of Sonia Gandhi in 2003.
He was officially invited for talks by the office of then prime minister Manmohan Singh on 17 February 2006.
The Congress led central governments over the decades entertained terrorist Yasin Malik in the name of ‘back channel talks’ while Malik continued endorsing terrorists butchering innocent people.
Congress is well known to have a special respect for terrorists; Pulwama attack mastermind Masood Azhar is Masood Azhar ‘ji’ for Rahul Gandhi. Congress leader Digvijay Singh calls 26/11 Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed, as Hafiz Saeed ‘Sahab’.
NDTV’s Ravish Kumar had once referred to the terrorist as ‘Yasin Sahab’, a word of respect. In between a debate Ravish Kumar had dialled Yasin Malik.
Despite his terror connections and his doings in the genocide of Kashmiri Hindus in the valley, the former governments, and the left-liberal media organization have often tried to show Yasin Malik as a peace bringer and a ‘youth icon’.
The foreign press, which has been interfering in India’s internal affairs for years, had made all possible efforts to establish Yasin Malik as a ‘hero’.
Only in our country will a known terrorist and cold-blooded murderer be given a platform to express his views and proudly shake hands with Indian Prime Minister, while the Kashmiri Hindus await justice.
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