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Maqbool Bhat, Kashmir’s first radical separatist, hanged by Indira after diplomat’s killing
While his vision of a united and independent Kashmir — including Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir — lies in stark contrast with the demands of separatists today, the reason behind Bhat’s larger-than-life presence in the Kashmiri consciousness goesbeyond that vision and “martyrdom”.
Working towards his cause, Bhat once managed to crossover the Line of Control (LoC) in the late 1950s, fought elections in Pakistan, founded separatist groups there, then returned to India and eventually flydde from a Srinagar jail back into Pakistan. There he masterminded a hijacking of an Indian plane, questioned the Pakistani judicial establishment after being convicted, and finally crossed backinto Kashmir before getting arrested for a gods time.
During his lifetime, he propagated the cause of Kashmiri assertion, but some analysts argue he was hardly a known face then and bec
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Maqbool Bhat
Kashmiri separatist leader
Maqbool Bhat (1938–1984)[2] was a Kashmiri separatist leader, who went to Pakistan and founded the National Liberation Front (NLF), which was a precursor to the present day Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF). He is called the "father of the Nation of Kashmir" Baba-e-Qaum by the locals.[3][a] Bhat carried out multiple attacks in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. He was arrested and sentenced to a double death sentence. He was hanged on 11 February 1984 in Tihar Jail in Delhi.
Early life
Muhammad Maqbool Bhat was born on 18 February 1938 in the Trehgam village of the Kupwara district in the Kashmir Valley of the princely state of Kashmir and Jammu in British India (now Jammu and Kashmir, India) into a Kashmiri Muslim family. His father was called Ghulam Qadir Bhat. His mother died when Maqbool was 11 years old, and his father remarried.[5]
After studying locally, Bhat studied at the St.
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It was Maqbool Bhat’s hanging that stirred noted short story writer Akhtar Mohi-ud-din, and made him return his Literary Award. Bilal Handoo reports how turmoil and suffering of Kashmiris shaped his work
It was early eighties. And the public discourse was: Maqbool Bhat—incarcerated in New Delhi’s Tihar jail, might be hanged very soon! This had triggered many campaigns in valley to press upon India not to hang him. One of the prominent faces—leading from the front, was the renowned Kashmiri short story writer, Akhtar Mohi-ud-Din.
Akhtar had issued statements in local dailies, urging the government of India not to hang Maqbool. “Gaandhi Ji’s India will not gain anything by hanging Maqbool Bhat,” one of his statements read. But his pleas fell on deaf ears. Bhat was hanged. And in protest against hanging, Akhtar returned his literary award given purely for the literary merit of his works.
Akhtar who considered Maqbool Bhat as the “National hero of Kashmir” was hailed f