The Dharma Chronicle

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...

Farooq Abdullah was the Chief Minister from November 7, 1986 to January 18, 1990. It was this period which saw Kashmir rise in Islamic extremism. In February 1986, massive communal attacks occurred in South Kashmir. Muslim mobs plundered or destroyed the properties and temples of Kashmiri Pandits. Ghulam Mohammad Shah, the brother-in-law of Farooq Abdullah, was the Chief Minister then. He failed to curb the violence. His government was dismissed in March 1986 by the then Governor Jagmohan. It was reported that Mufti Sayeed, then a Congress leader, had instigated the violence as he was keen to be the Chief Minister and replace Shah . Rajiv Gandhi was the Prime Minister then who later gave Mufti Sayeed a seat in the Rajya Sabha and also made him a Union Minister. In November 1986, after months of hectic parleys, Rajiv Gandhi and Farooq Abdullah signed an accord and the latter was reinstated as the Chief Minister. It was this period that saw the build up to...