Yasin Malik is the Chairman of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, an armed group that rose against Indian atrocities in occupied Kashmir. In 2019, the Indian government arrested Malik, banned the JKLF, and stripped Indian-administered Kashmir of its special status. He had been responsible for the Kashmiri Pandits' exodus from the Valley. He had been charged with hatching a criminal conspiracy, waging war against the country, other unlawful activities, and disturbing peace in Kashmir. The abduction of Rubaiya Sayeed, daughter of then Union Home Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed in 1989, in which Malik was involved, and the subsequent release of militants was another major act in Kashmir. He had set up an elaborate structure and mechanism across the world to raise funds for carrying out terrorist and other unlawful activities in Jammu and Kashmir in the name of the 'freedom struggle'. Yasin Malik deserves no sympathy and he deserves the death penalty.
KG VILOP, Chorao
