Ashiq Hussain Faktoo

Ashiq Hussain Faktoo

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Ashiq Hussain Faktoo Profile

  • Name:
  • Ashiq Hussain Faktoo
  • Born:
  • March 23, 1967
  • Spouse:
  • Asiya Andrabi

Ashiq Hussain Faktoo Biography

Ashiq Hussain Faktoo is a Kashmiri separatist, who demands separation of Kashmir from India. He has been involved with the mission for the unification of Kashmir with Pakistan, and he is in jail since 1993 over the murder charge of human rights activist H. N. Wanchoo. He was released only for a short span in 1999, and hence is the longest serving prisoner of Kashmir. His wife Asiya Andrabi is a Kashmiri separatist and the founding leader and chairperson of Dukhtaran-e-Millat, an Islamic group which is part of the separatist organisation 'All Parties Hurriyat Conference' in the Kashmir valley. Government of India has already banned it as a terrorist organization, and the main demand of this group is to work towards the separation of Kashmir from India.

 

Dr. Qasim Faktoo, also known as Mohammad Qasim and Ashiq Hussain Faktoo was born in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, on 23 March 1967. He graduated in Commerce from Islamia College Srinagar and later did MA, MPhil in Islamic Studies and Maulvi Fazil from Kashmir University. He also completed PhD in 2006 in Islamic studies. He married Asiya Andrabi in 1990 and three years later he got jailed for murder charges. He is still in jail. The couple has two sons. Her elder son is living in Malaysia with Asiya’s elder sister while the younger son is studying in Srinagar.  

 

In almost 30 years of militancy in Kashmir, he has already served 26 years. Though he was briefly released in 1999, he was booked by Kashmir police in 2000 under explosive substances act. Despite review board recommendations and court’s assertion that a person of such caliber does not deserve to be in jail, steps have not taken yet to release him from jail.

 

Published: February 03, 2019

Updated: February 03, 2019

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