Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai. A #Thread
With #Geelani being sidelined, will the newly elected #Hurriyat Chief Sehrai make any difference, those who closely follow him say that he is even more hardliner than Geelani & will drown #Kashmir further into chaos
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Born in 1944 in Tickipora #Lolab, #Kupwara, his forefathers migrated to this part of #Kashmir before partition hailing from the Khans of #Pakistan. He is a staunch Pro-Pakistan supporter & vehemently advocates Kashmir's annexation to #Pakistan
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Sehrai did his initial education from #Sogam & B.A from #AMU. Like many other #Kashmiris, he was taught by #Kashmiri #pandit teachers. One of his childhood teachers was Gopi Nath Kaul..
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..who taught him English, Sehari remembers he taught him like is own son, ironically when #Kashmiri #Pandits were ousted from their #homeland, Sehrai was a senior leader in #Jamat (JEI)
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Ashraf #Sehrai was involved in #AntiNational activities as early as 1965 when he was #JAILED for delivering #Hatespeech in #Pattan #mosque, pushing the masses towards #radical ideologies. He was jailed for 6 months in #Srinagar #Central #Jail.
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Sehrai played a crucial role is orchestrating the #protests of 2010 & 2016 in #Kashmir, which were some of the most #violent protests in Kashmir history, costing hundreds of innocent lives.
Apart from seminars and some #public programmes which were presided..
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..over by Sehrai where he actively instigated masses to fillip unrest in #Kashmir, Sehrai issued regular "protest calendars" through which he asked the people to follow different means(#stonepelting) & timings of #Protests.
Combined, more than 250 died & 19000 were injured
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On 25 March 2018 his son Junaid joined #terror outfit #HM, the very #organisation his father played a key role in laying foundation of in 1989-90. In #Police records Junaid Sehrai was wanted..
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..for several #attacks & subversive actions but he had never fired a single bullet till his first & last #encounter on 19 May 2020, he was a brand name for #HM to say the least
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In June 2020 an #NIA investigation report on funding of separatists & #terrorists in #Kashmir named Sehrai as remaining in the forefront of anti-India activities and..(10/11)
..accused Sehrai of boosting anti-India activities in #Kashmir after death of #BurhanWani. He was #Arrested and booked under #PSA on 12 July 2020.
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