Yasin Malik's wife Mishaal Hussain Malik enters Pakistan's interim govt. What's her India connection?
Reuters. Yasin Malik, the chief of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), had been found guilty by a National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in terror funding cases and was sentenced to life imprisonment on May 25, 2022. Mishaal Hussain Malik, a Pakistani national, is married to Yasin Malik who is the chief of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) in India.
The two met in 2005 when Yasin had gone to Islamabad to gather support for the Kashmiri separatist movement. Malik got impressed by Yasin's speech and heaped compliments on him. The couple fell in love and got married in 2009.
Malik visited India twice in 2014. Since then, the wife of Kashmiri separatist Yasin Malik has not shown any interest in visiting India nor has she applied for a visa since her two-year visa expired in 2015, a home ministry official had earlier said. Mushaal Hussein Malik has been quoted in media reports as saying that India had not allowed her to meet Malik and his family for about three years and New Delhi should show a “humanitarian gesture", PTI had earlier reported.
In addition, former central bank chief Shamshad Akhtar has been chosen as the Finance Minister of the interim cabinet, and former provincial minister Sarfaraz Bugti has been named the Interior Minister. Also read: Pakistan caretaker PM Anwaarul Haq Kakar's 18-member Cabinet takes oath On August 17, Pakistan's President Arif Alvi administered the oath to the newly appointed members of interim PM Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar's cabinet. A total of sixteen federal ministers took their oaths, and the interim PM also appointed three advisers, as detailed in a list of cabinet members released by the Presidency as reported by Dawn.
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