Kashmiri Separatist Politician Altaf Shah Dies of Cancer at Delhi Hospital

Altaf Shah had been serving a sentence in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail for the past five years for colluding with Pakistan to finance militancy in Jammu and Kashmir. His family, however, referred to him as a “political prisoner.” Altaf was son-in-law of separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani and a member of the political group Tehreek-e-Hurriyat.