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Yasin Malik : Terrorist Or Youth Icon ?

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 S...