Yasin Malik, Kashmir’s best-known separatist, an Indian intelligence asset? | India-Pakistan Tensions News

For well over three decades, Yasin Malik has held the reputation of a top-ranked pro-freedom leader from Indian-administered Kashmir.

A leader who became synonymous with the armed struggle that broke out in Kashmir seeking independence from India in the late 1980s, then turned to the advocacy of peaceful, nonviolent resistance, Malik is currently serving a life sentence in a New Delhi jail. A villain in the eyes of many in the Indian security services and the country’s strategic…