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Mehbooba Mufti

DOB: 22nd May, 1959

Mehbooba Mufti is an Indian politician and former chief minister of Indian Occupied Kashmir (4th April 2016-19th June 2018). Mehbooba is the first woman chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir and India's second Muslim woman chief minister after Syeda Anwara Taimur of Assam. She is the president of the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Mehbooba suppoted the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2016 but however she resigned on 19th June,2018 after BJP withdrew support from the coalition government. Mehbooba Mufti was a member of Indian parliament representing Anantnag in the 16th Lok Sabha. She had also represented Anantnag in the 14th Lok Sabha. Her father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was appointed as India's home minister in 1989 and was released after a few days in exchange for some terrorists. In 1996 state assembly elections, Mehbooba Mufti was one of the popular elected members from Bijbehra on INC ticket. Mehbooba Mufti contested in the parliamentary elections in 1999 from Srinagar and she lost to the sitting member Omar Abdullah. She won her Pahalgam seat from South Kashmir, when assembly elections were held again in 2002.

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House of PDP's Rajya Sabha MP Nazir Ahmad set on fire by

Kashmir unrest: Angry protesters set PDP MP Nazir Ahmad's house in Kulgam on fire

Politics | Aug 31, 2016, 07:49 PM IST

Angry protesters in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulgam district on Wednesday torched the house of Peoples Democratic Party’s Rajya Sabha MP Nazir Ahmad.

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Instead of pelting stones, children should focus on studies: Mehbooba Mufti

Politics | Aug 30, 2016, 06:38 PM IST

Advising children of Kashmir not to allow themselves to be used for staging protest and stone pelting, J&K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today said that they are best suited for places like food camps, IITs

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti

PM Modi will use his mandate to save future of Kashmiri children: Mehbooba Mufti

Politics | Aug 30, 2016, 12:06 AM IST

Narendra Modi will use his mandate to save the lives and future of children of Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti said.

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Govt signals talk with separatists, all-party delegation may meet Hurriyat leaders next month

Politics | Aug 28, 2016, 07:23 AM IST

As all efforts of the Centre and Jammu and Kashmir government to bring normalcy in the Valley so far have gone to vain, the government is mulling bringing separatists back to the talking table.

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J&K govt to act against 400 ‘troublemakers’ fuelling protests in valley: Report

India | Aug 27, 2016, 11:39 AM IST

The Jammu and Kashmir government headed by Mehbooba Mufti is planning to take action against 400 local leaders who are fuelling protests in the Kashmir valley.

Mehbooba Mufti and PM Narendra Modi

Pakistan openly trying to provoke and fuel tensions in Valley: Mehbooba Mufti

Politics | Aug 27, 2016, 02:30 PM IST

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti will call on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi today where she is expected to discuss the prevailing situation in the state.

PM Modi with Mehbooba Mufti | India TV

Amidst continued unrest in Kashmir, CM Mehbooba Mufti to fly Delhi for talks with PM Modi

Politics | Aug 26, 2016, 10:02 PM IST

As the Kashmir Valley remained on the boil with one more civilian getting killed in firing by security forces, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti will fly to New Delhi for a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra

Mehbooba Mufti and Rajnath Singh at a joint press

Mehbooba Mufti loses cool, ends press conference with Rajnath still seated

Politics | Aug 25, 2016, 04:31 PM IST

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday lost her cool during a press conference she was addressing jointly with Home Minister Rajnath Singh when journalists grilled her on her role in dealing with

Rajnath Singh and Mehbooba Mufti

All-party delegation to visit Kashmir; alternative to pellet guns soon: Rajnath Singh

Politics | Aug 25, 2016, 01:15 PM IST

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who is in Kashmir on a two-day visit, today informed that an all-party delegation will be sent to Kashmir for holding talks on how to end problems in the troubled state.

Mehbooba Mufti | India TV

Handful of people pre-planned Kashmir unrest, says CM Mehbooba Mufti

Politics | Aug 22, 2016, 11:52 PM IST

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today held a handful of people responsible for creating unrest in the valley as, she said, 95 per cent of people were peace-loving and should not be punished

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Problem in ‘nation’s leadership’ responsible for J&K situation: Mehbooba Mufti in her I-Day address

Politics | Aug 15, 2016, 03:39 PM IST

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today said that guns cannot get justice and then went on to blame the ‘national leadership’ for all the problems the border state is facing today.

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In Delhi, Mehbooba Mufti invokes Vajpayee; presses for dialogue on Kashmir issue

Politics | Aug 08, 2016, 07:42 PM IST

Pitching for an early start to a dialogue process with people of Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to seize the opportunity created by the unrest to

FILE:Mehbooba Mufti with Rajnath Singh

As Kashmir enters 31st day of curfew, Mehbooba Mufti meets Rajnath Singh to discuss situation

Politics | Aug 08, 2016, 05:21 PM IST

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday met Home Minister Rajnath Singh in Delhi, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with the Home Minister and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval.

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Will be burned if you ride scooties, poster in Srinagar threatens girls; Mehbooba cautions of Kashmir becoming Afghanistan

Politics | Aug 01, 2016, 10:35 PM IST

A hitherto-unknown group of stone-pelters in Jammu and Kashmir has threatened girls against riding two-wheelers or they would be set on fire. The threat by ‘Sangbaaz (stone-pelters) Association Jammu and Kashmir’ was made in a

J&K Deputy CM

Had we known about Wani’s killing, unrest would have been averted: J&K Deputy CM

India | Jul 30, 2016, 09:19 PM IST

Weeks after violence took over Jammu and Kashmir following the encounter of Hizbul Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani, the Deputy Chief Minister of the state Nirmal Singh today said the situation would have been different if

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Security forces were unaware of Burhan Wani's presence at the scene of encounter: Mehbooba Mufti

Politics | Jul 28, 2016, 05:38 PM IST

Claiming that security forces were unaware of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani's presence at the scene of the July 8 encounter, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today said that government could have made

CM Mehbooba Mufti with a Kashmiri mother.

CM Mehbooba Mufti breaks down while hearing wails of families of Kashmir victims

Politics | Jul 23, 2016, 07:52 PM IST

J&K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti's visit to this border district today to meet families left grieving by the latest spurt in violence was marked by hugs, tears and a few words of sympathy for a

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J&K: Mehbooba govt transfers DIG South Kashmir, SSP Anantnag

India | Jul 23, 2016, 06:04 PM IST

Mehbooba Mufti government today transferred two senior police officers from South Kashmir range, which was worst hit by violence following killing of Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Burhan Wani.

Roohi Nazki

PDP Minister’s wife asks Mehbooba Mufti govt to step down or stop killings

Politics | Jul 23, 2016, 01:23 PM IST

J&K Finance Minister Haseeb Drabus wife Roohi Nazki has termed the happenings in the Valley over the last 14 days ‘immoral, unethical, tragic and wrong’ and asked the ruling establishment to either stop the civilians killing in the Valley or step dow

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Kashmir unrest: Mehbooba Mufti convenes all-party meet in Srinagar, National Conference to boycott

Politics | Jul 21, 2016, 08:26 AM IST

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has called an all-party meeting in Srinagar today to discuss the prevailing law and order situation in the valley and measures to be taken to restore peace and normalcy.

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