Ashfaq Majeed Wani

Ashfaq Majeed Wani
اشفاق مجید وانی
Succeeded by	Yasin Malik
Personal details
Born	5 September, 1966 Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Died	30 March, 1990 (age 24) Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Political party	Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front
Profession	Commander-in-chief of JKLF

Ashfaq Majeed Wani (Nastaleeq: اشفاق مجید وانی‬) (September 5, 1966 – March 30, 1990) was the first Commander-in-chief of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, a militant separatist group in Indian Administered Kashmir. He was killed by Indian Paramilitary Forces in 1990 at the age of 23. He is considered to be the mastermind behind the kidnapping of Rubiya Sayed, daughter of Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, who was Home Minister of India at that time.

Ashfaq Majeed Wani, was born on September 6, 1966, in the Sarai Balla area of Srinagar in the valley of Kashmir. He studied at Tyndale Biscoe School and later went to Sri Pratap College and the University of Kashmir. When he was a teenager, sports were an important part of his life. He was a dedicated soccer player, a marathon runner, and a table tennis player, winning first prize in the interstate marathon tournament in 1985 and being selected to represent the state.

He is regarded as the mastermind behind Kashmiri Insurgency which started in the 1990s. He was the only Kashmiri militant who met all military advisors, civil leaders, Prime Minister and President of Pakistan. He bashed Syed Ali Shah Geelani in the peak of militancy in the 1990s when Syed Ali Shah Geelani asked him to join the political movement instead of the militancy.

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