New Delhi, Sept. 19 -- Mehbooba Mufto, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and PDP chief, has written to Home Minister Amit Shah to view jailed separatist Yasin Malik's case through a humanitarian lens. Among other charges, Malik was one of the key leaders of JKLF who had kidnapped Rubaiya Sayeed, Mufti's daughter in 1989.

"While I differ with his political ideology, one cannot ignore the courage it took him to renounce violence and choose the path of political engagement and non violent dissent," Mehbooba Mufti said sharing the letter on his X account.

In 1989, Rubaiya Sayeed, the daughter of the then Home Minister and Mehbooba Mufti's father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, was kidnapped by separatistsin Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir when ...