Syed Ali Shah Geelani
| Syed Ali Shah Geelani سید علی شاہ گیلانی |
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| All Parties Hurriyat Conference(G) | |
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| Born |
29 September 1929 Bandipora, Jammu and Kashmir, British Indian Empire |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Political party | Tehreek-e-Hurriyat |
| Alma mater |
Punjab University, Lahore, Punjab Province |
Punjab University, Lahore, Punjab Province
Syed Ali Shah Geelani (Urdu: سید علی شاہ گیلانی; born 29 September 1929) is a separatist Hurriyat leader from Jammu and Kashmir. He was previously a member of Jamaat-e-Islami Kashmir but later on founded his own party by the name of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat. He has served as the chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, a conglomerate of separatist parties in Jammu and Kashmir. He was an MLA from the Sopore constituency of Jammu and Kashmir three times (1972,1977 and 1987).
Geelani was born in a town near Bandipora, North Kashmir, on 29 September 1929. He was educated at Sopore, and finished his studies at the Oriental College, Lahore (in present-day Pakistan).
Geelani has been viewed as a key leader in Kashmir. Omar Abdullah, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, has blamed Geelani for the rise in militancy and bloodshed in Kashmir, while Omar's father and former Union Minister Farooq Abdullah has urged Geelani to follow a path which would "save Kashmiri people from further destruction". In October 2013 he was re-elected for the fourth time to serve three-year term as the chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G), a faction of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, which split up in 2003. He founded the Tehreek-e-Hurriyat party, to which he was separately reelected as chairman for a three-year term in September 2013.
Geelani has called for numerous general strikes or shutdowns, in response to the deaths of unnamed suspected militants, local militants and death of civilians in Kashmir.
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