Amanullah Khan (24 August 1934-26 April 2016) was the leader of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front during the Kashmir conflict. Born in Pakistan, he founded the Kashmiri independence movement in 1963 and was wanted in both Pakistan and India for allegedly being an agent of the other side in both countries.
Biography[]
Amanullah Khan was born on 24 August 1934 in Astore, Gilgit-Baltistan, in northern Pakistan. In 1940 he headed to Kashmir in pursuit of educational opportunities and was the highest-scoring Muslim student at the Kashmir University in 1950, and in 1952 he returned to Pakistan, where he graduated from the S.M. College in Karachi with a law degree. While still in school, he became attached to the independence movement of Kashmir and aided in the 1953 founding of the Kashmir Independent Committee. From 1970 to 1972 he was imprisoned in Pakistan for allegedly being an agent of India, while in Kashmir he was wanted by India for allegedly being an agent of Pakistan. In 1990 his United States Visa was cancelled by the Indian government, but he was not extradited to India by the government of Belgium when India demanded his handover. He is currently the leader of the JKLF in their struggle for freedom in the Kashmir conflict. He died in Rawalpindi in 2016.