Wife Of Arrested Separatist Leader Becomes Part Of Pakistan Government; Read To Know Her Connection With India

Pakistan's interim PM includes Yasin Malik's wife in his cabinet, appoints her as Minister for Human Rights.

Pakistan Government: Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, the acting prime minister of Pakistan, has appointed Mushaal Hussain Malik, the wife of jailed separatist leader Yasin Malik, to his cabinet. She has been appointed as the Minister for Human Rights of Pakistan. On May 25, 2022, Yasin Malik, the leader of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), received a life sentence after being found guilty by a National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in counts involving funding for terrorism.

India link of Mushaal Hussain Malik

Yasin Malik, the leader of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) in India, is married to Pakistani national Mushaal Hussain Malik. When Yasin traveled to Islamabad in 2005 to rally support for the Kashmiri separatist movement, they crossed paths. Yasin’s speech pleased Malik, who complimented her profusely. In 2009, the couple wed after falling in love.

Malik made two trips to India in 2014. Yasin Malik’s wife has not expressed any interest in traveling to India since that time, nor has she filed for a visa after her two-year visa expired in 2015, a home ministry official had earlier claimed.

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“Humanitarian Gesture” expected from India

In media reports, Mushaal Hussein Malik was quoted as saying that India should make a “humanitarian gesture” since it had prevented her from meeting Malik and his family for approximately three years.

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An examination of Pakistan government

In addition, former province minister Sarfaraz Bugti and former central bank president Shamshad Akhtar have been selected as the interim cabinet’s Finance and Interior Ministers, respectively.

The newly elected members of temporary PM Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar’s cabinet were sworn in by Pakistan’s President Arif Alvi on August 17. According to a list of cabinet members given by the Presidency and cited by Dawn, a total of sixteen federal ministers took their oaths, and the interim prime minister also named three advisers.

Srishti Verma