Ahmed Zargar, who was from Jammu & Kashmir and was raised in downtown Srinagar. He was originally from the Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), later migrating to hardcore militancy and was reportedly involved in the 1989 kidnapping of Rubaiya Sayeed, the daughter of a former Home minister of India, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed (who later became chief minister of J&K; Rubaiya was also the sister of the present Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti).

