Yasin Malik
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"Yasin Malik" (born 1963) is a separatist leader who advocates separation of Kashmir from India. He serves as the Chairman of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front.

Malik originally came to prominence as a militant in JKLF and underwent training on arms and ammunition in Pakistan based training camps. He has admitted to have killed a group of unarmed Indian Air Force men while they were waiting for their transportation to arrive in period of 1989-1994 - in his interview with Tim Sebastian. He later surrendered and since 1995, Malik has renounced violence and calls for strictly peaceful methods to come to a settlement on the Kashmir Conflict. On 4 December 2013, Malik was thrown out of a hotel in New Delhi with his wife and 18-month-old daughter due to his political Ideology Separatism.

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Allow international organizations to come in and help the Kashmiri people, ... India will gain. They will not lose with this kind of gesture.

The aid will be for our brothers and sisters across the border.

I will need to talk to my party colleagues and the decision will be conveyed by Wednesday.

I have brought blankets, rations and mineral water for the victims. I and my volunteers are going to camp in Uri.

It was a golden opportunity for the government of India to show a human face. But the government missed the opportunity.

They consider me an impediment in coming state legislature elections.

Allow international organizations to come in and help the Kashmiri people. India will gain. They will not lose with this kind of gesture.

We are the ones who are here with blood, with food, with medicines ? the people can see that.

There is tremendous pressure on India and Pakistan from the international community to resolve the dispute, ... I can tell you with authority that the Kashmir issue is heading towards a resolution.