Sayeed Salahudeen

Background

His father worked in the Postal Department in the Indian government.

Education

University of Kashmir.

Career

Salahudeen regularly asserts that "the practical mechanism to solve Kashmir dispute is by accepting the right to self-determination". He is listed on the National Investigation Agency Most Wanted terrorist list. He is currently living in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Born as the seventh child of middle class parents at Soibugh, Budgam, a village in the Kashmir Valley.

Mohammed Yusaf Shah initially became interested in studying medicine, but later on decided to become a civil servant. After university, he decided not to join the civil service, as he regarded this as traitorous to the cause of Kashmir, but instead he became an Islamic preacher at a Madrasa.

Shah"s fourth son, Wahid Yusuf, studies in Sri Maharaja Hari Singh Government Medical College. Mueed Yusuf, the youngest of Shah"s sons, is pursuing a higher education degree (Master of Technology ).

Mohammad Yusuf Shah who stood for the Legislative Assembly elections in 1987 from Amirakadal, Srinagar.

As the vote counting began, it became clear that Yusuf Shah was winning by a landslide. Yusuf Shah as well as Yasin Malik were arrested by the police and imprisoned until the end of 1987. Widespread rigging and "booth-capturing" in the elections were reported.

The police refused to listen to any complaint.

Mohammed Yusaf Shah was arrested and put in jail for his violent agitations. After his release in 1989, he was allegedly threatened by the National Conference with "dire consequences".

This convinced him that "armed struggle was the only solution to the Kashmiri problem". He then joined founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar alias "Master" who later parted from He had declared to start attacking Pakistan if Pakistan stopped backing jihadis in Jammu and Kashmir who, he claimed, were fighting "Pakistan"s war".

Achievements

• However, the opposing candidate, National Conference candidate Ghulam Mohiuddin Shah, was declared the winner. The National Conference-Congress alliance was declared the winner with 62 seats in the Assembly, and formed the government.He came second after Ghulam Mohiuddin Shah of the moderate National Conference won the seat, amidst allegations of "rigging and bogus polling".

Politics

In June 2012 in an interview, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen chief Sayeed Salahuddin accepted that Pakistan had been backing Hizb-ul-Mujahideen for fight in Kashmir.

Membership

While studying Political Science at University of Kashmir, he was influenced by the Jamaat-e-Islami, and become a member of its branch in Jammu and Kashmir.