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Syed Ali Shah Geelani (29 September 1929 – 1 September 2021) was an Islamist, [ 12 ] pro-Pakistan [ 13 ][ 14 ][ 15 ] Kashmiri-separatist leader in the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, [ 16 ][ 17 ] regarded as the father of the Kashmiri jihad. [ 18 ][ 19 ][ 20 ] Geelani helped found the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) in 1993 and ...
Sep 2, 2021 · 2 Sep 2021. Syed Ali Shah Geelani, the veteran separatist leader from Indian-administered Kashmir, has been laid to rest as the Indian authorities crack down on public movement and impose a near ...
Dec 4, 2020 · Syed Ali Shah Geelani speaks at a press conference in Srinagar on January 3, 2004 [File:Rafiq Maqbool/AP] By the end of my first day at Aba’s house, his condition was getting slightly better. He ...
- ‘Loss to The Society’
- ‘He Confronted Both’ India and Pakistan
- ‘He Did His Work’
In the 1950s, Geelani joined Jamaat-e-Islami, the region’s largest political-religious organisation that shared ideological affinity with the Muslim Brotherhood movement in Egypt. The organisation was banned by India’s Hindu nationalist government in 2019. Geelani had been a thorn in India’s side since the early 1960s when he began campaigning for ...
In a famous move in 2005, Geelani rejected then-Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf’s four-point solution to the Kashmir dispute. Musharraf had proposed joint control of the Himalayan region between India and Pakistan and increased access to trade and travel between the regions controlled by the two nations. “When he felt that General Parvez Musha...
Most of the separatist groups in Indian-administered Kashmir such as Hurriyat have been in disarray since India began its crackdown following an attack on Indian forces in Pulwama in February 2019. The suicide attack, blamed on a Pakistan-based armed group of Kashmiri rebels, led to the mass arrests of the region’s leaders, including from the relig...
Sep 1, 2021 · Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani has died at his home in Srinagar at the age of 92. He passed away after a lengthy illness. A veteran campaigner against Indian rule, he had been under ...
Sep 5, 2021 · Taken in the winter at the beginning of 2015, Sagar Kaul presents 47 photographs documenting the day-to-day life of a man older than the partition. In doing so, Kaul brings to fore a side of Syed Ali Shah Geelani that had not been presented through image before. These visuals serve as an indelible marker of the memory
Sep 2, 2021 · Syed Ali Shah Geelani was born on Sept. 29, 1929, in Zoori Munz, a village in northern Kashmir. His family subsisted on manual labor. He graduated from high school in 1945 and went to Lahore ...
