Muhammad Ahsan Dar
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Muhammad Ahsan Dar (Kashmiri: محمد احسن دار; born 1952) is a Kashmiri Islamist[1] militant[1] separatist leader from Jammu and Kashmir.[2][3][4][5] He was the founder of an Islamist militant group called Ansarul Islam in mid-1980s, which later became the core of Hizbul Mujahideen.[1] Formed in September 1989, Hizbul Mujahideen was an umbrella group of a dozen Islamist groups in the Kashmir Valley and was sponsored by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence and Jamaat-e-Islami.[6][7] Ahsan Dar served as the head of the united group for a few years, but was marginalised the Jamaat-e-Islami patron Syed Salahuddin. He later founded a new group called Muslim Mujahideen in 1992, which operated for a few years. It was eventually neutralised by Hizbul Mujahideen and Indian security forces, and Ahsan Dar retired from militancy.[8]
Muhammad Ahsan Dar | |
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Born | 1952 (1952) Sariwarpora Pattan, Baramulla, Jammu and Kashmir, India |
Other names | Master Ahsan Dar |
Occupation | Ex-School-Teacher |
Known for | Founding the Hizbul Mujahideen |
Children | 4 |