Abdul Majeed Dar

Abdul Majeed Dar was a former chief commander of the militant group Hizbul Mujahideen in Jammu & Kashmir till 2001. He later gave up violence and sought to restore peace in Kashmir. In this period, he was involved with Syed Ali Geelani and went to jail several times. In the late 1980s, after the rigged 1987 elections, he became a militant along with his friend Fazl-ul-Haq Qureshi. By 1990, he was the leader of the organization Tahreek-e-Jihad-e-Islami (TJI) along with Bashir Ahmed Regoo alias Bashir Reagan who was given the name Reagan for his intelligence. In 1991, Dar merged this group with the Hizb, bringing in several thousand followers. In the following years, rivalries developed within the Hizb, culminating in a killing of 21 people in an Azad Kashmir village in near the border in 1998. 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,

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.