‘Azadi’ can wait, but marriage cannot. Love beckons Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik who is all set to marry his lady love Mushaal Mullick in Pakistan.
Malik has left for Islamabad to perform nikaah with Mushaal, a Pakistani painter, who “supports charities and NGOs working on gender issues”. In a press statement posted on her website, Mushaal says she is inspired by the raw beauty of the feminine mystique and the horrors of abject poverty.
Mushaal’s late father MA Hussein Mullick was a former chairman of the economics department at the Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad. Her brother Haider Ali Hussein Mullick, according to press statement, is a foreign policy analyst in Washington, and mother Rehana Hussein Mullick is a former secretary general of Pakistan Muslim League’s women wing.
Mushaal, who is pursuing her bachelors at the London School of Economics, began painting with water colour at the age of six and then moved to other media, including pastel, charcoal, and glass painting.
Malik met Mushaal during one of his trips to Pakistan and it was love at first sight. “He will be performing nikaah in Pakistan. The date of reception will be decided later.
During the nikaah ceremony, our party members and friends will accompany Malik,” said Ghulam Rasool Dar Eidi, JKLF general secretary.
Malik is the third Kashmiri separatist leader who is marrying a foreigner. His contemporary and chairman of Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq is married to Sheeba Masoodi, an American citizen of Kashmiri descent. Another separatist leader and chairman of People’s Conference is married to Asma Khan, daughter of the Pakistani JKLF chairman Amanullah Khan.
