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Kashmiri separatist leader

Maqbool Bhat (1938–1984)^[2] was a Kashmiri separatist leader, who went to Pakistan and founded the National Liberation Front (NLF), which was a precursor to the present day Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF). He is called the "father of the Nation of Kashmir" Baba-e-Qaum by the locals.^[3][a] Bhat carried out multiple attacks in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir.

He was arrested and sentenced to a double death sentence. He was hanged on 11 February 1984 in Tihar Jail in Delhi.

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Early life

Muhammad Maqbool Bhat was born on 18 February 1938 in the Trehgam village of the Kupwara district in the Kashmir Valley of the princely state of Kashmir and Jammu in British India (now Jammu and Kashmir, India) into a Kashmiri Muslim family. His father was called Ghulam Qadir Bhat. His mother died when Maqbool was 11 years old, and his father remarried.^[5]

After studying locally, Bhat studied at the St.

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