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List Of Kashmiris
This is an incomplete list of notable persons of Kashmiri origin. Activists * Ataullah Shah Bukhari, Indian freedom struggle activist. * Amanullah Khan (JKLF) co- founder of JKLF and an activist. * Parveena Ahanger, co-founder and chairman of the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP), nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. * Parvez Imroz, Kashmiri human rights lawyer and a civil rights activist. * Mushtaq Pahalgami, Social Activist, Environmentalist, President Himalayan Welfare Organization, Pahalgam * Khurram Parvez, Kashmiri human rights activist. * Sanaullah Amritsari, Indian freedom struggle activist and co-founder of Jamia Millia Islamia * Shehla Rashid, Political and civil rights activist. * Ayub Thakur, (1948 – 2004) Kashmiri political activist and founder of London-based World Kashmir Freedom Movement (WKFM), Administrators, diplomats, bankers and jurists * Amitabh Mattoo (1962– ), Vice Chancellor, Jammu University, thinker & writer, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kashmiri People
Kashmiris are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group speaking the Kashmiri language, living mostly, but not exclusively, in the Kashmir Valley of Jammu and Kashmir, India.(a) (subscription required) Quote: "Kashmir, region of the northwestern Indian subcontinent ... has been the subject of dispute between India and Pakistan since the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. The northern and western portions are administered by Pakistan and comprise three areas: Azad Kashmir, Gilgit, and Baltistan, the last two being part of a territory called the Northern Areas. Administered by India are the southern and southeastern portions, which constitute the state of Jammu and Kashmir but are slated to be split into two union territories. China became active in the eastern area of Kashmir in the 1950s and has controlled the northeastern part of Ladakh (the easternmost portion of the region) since 1962."; (b) C. E Bosworth, University of Manchester Quote: "KASHMIR, kash'mer, the nort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
