
‘Regarded as Doctor by Locals’- Who Was Hizbul Mujahideen Chief, Saifullah Mir
Son of a government school teacher, 31-year-old Saifullah Mir had joined the militant movement in 2014. Mir, who was the Hizbul Mujahideen chief, has been reported killed by the forces in an encounter on November 1, 2020, in Srinagar.
A child of conflict, Mir was born in 1989 when the militancy was raging in full swing in the valley. But there is more to his identity than just being a militant.
A native of Malangpora in Pulwama district of South Kashmir, Mir studied till class X and later earned a diploma in medical electronics from the Industrial Training Institute in Pulwama in 2010. Later, he went on to pursue another diploma from the National Institute of Electronics in Information Technology in Srinagar in 2013.
He was proficient in learning to mend the diagnostic equipment a...
