An Islamist’s resurrection in Kashmir
In the build-up to the Assembly elections, which were scheduled to have been held in October, the APHC’s doves began pushing for a dialogue with New Delhi. Part of the reason lay in a successful campaign by the People’s Democratic Party to recruit influential secessionists. The former Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front supreme council member, Pir Mansoor Husain, became party president Mehbooba Mufti’s political advisor; the former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Mohammad Bhat’s brother, Abdul Khaliq Bhat, was lined up to contest from Sopore; Mirwaiz Farooq’s trusted lieutenant, Mohammad Yakub Vakil, too, joined the PDP in search of a seat.
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