Abdul Ghani Lone
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Abdul Ghani Lone was an Indian lawyer and politician who for most of his professional career worked as a Kashmiri separatist. He was assassinated on May 21, 2002 while commemorating the twelfth anniversary of the Kashmiri leader, Mirwaiz Maulvi Farooq.
Abdul Ghani Lone received a law degree from Aligarh University in 1957. He made his first entry into politics serving in the state assembly as a Congress candidate in 1967. In 1978 he formed a Kashmir separatist organization called the People's Conference dedicated to "the restoration of 'internal autonomy' in Kashmir."
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