Syed Ali Shah Geelani ( ; born September 29, 1929) is a prominent political leader from Jammu and Kashmir.
He is among the well-known figures of the Valley who support the "Right to Self Determination" for the people of Jammu and Kashmir. He favoured the conditional/temporary accession of Kashmir to Pakistan. In his early life, he formed a party by the name Tehreek-e-Hurriyat, but later dissolved it and became a member of Jamaat-e-Islami, Jammu and Kashmir. However, due to a sequence of events, he has reformed his own party, Tehreek-e-Hurriyat, which is now a component of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, of which he is the Chairman, for the struggle of breaking away from India and securing the right to self-determination for the people of Kashmir.
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