Abdul Majeed Dar

Praveen Swami, citing friends of Dar, has written that soon afterwards, he went for Hajj, and had a revelation standing in front of the Kaaba, and where saw "a vision of the suffering that a decade of terror had inflicted on Jammu and Kashmir." Eventually, after the much-maligned Chittisinghpura massacre of March 2000, several voices within the Hizb joined Dar in seeking a return to more peaceful approaches. In July 2000, Dar, along with four other Hizb commanders, declared a unilateral ceasefire in a declaration from the outskirts of Srinagar. Unsubstantiated rumors claimed that Dar been in touch with the Indian nodal intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and also the Intelligence Branch (IB), Though the move was immediately endorsed by the Hizb leadership, File:Abdul Majeed Dar with jklf founder Amanullah Khan.jpg|JKLF founder Amanullah Khan with Abdul Majeed Dar File:During a meeting.jpg|Abdul Majeed Dar after attending a conference File:Abdul Majeed Dar in a meeting in Iran.jpg|Abdul Majeed Dar in a meeting in Iran ==Assassination==

In 2001, Hizb commander and Dar's friend, the moderate Abdul Hamid Tantray, was assassinated. In 1997 April, Bashir Reagan (Bashir Ahmed Regoo) Commander in Chief Hizb and Co-founder Tehreek-e-jihad-e-Islami was assassinated at Sopore. In 2002 May, Dar was expelled from the Hizb along with Asad Yazdani and Zafar Abdul Fateh . Three weeks later, on 21 May, the moderate Abdul Gani Lone was killed. In March 2003, as he was coming out of his house in Sopore, Dar was shot dead by two gunmen. No one claimed responsibility for the attack. ==References==