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Commander Sardar Farooq Khan of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, a former AJK-origin Pakistani SSG special forces commando who joined the JKLF and became a prominent Kashmiri liberation activist, was shot during the long march from Rawalakot to Muzaffarabad on 28 July 2026 said to be by AJK Police and/or Panjab Police who were drafted in to deal with the shortfall in police needed to adequately provide policing for the protests. He succumbed to his wounds in hospital.

AJKians, Kashmiris, and more, whether in the disputed regions or in exile abroad, all pay tremendous tribute to him, his sacrifices, and steadfastness in the struggle for Liberation.

Commander Farooq Khan's killing is not an isolated incident. It follows the martyrdom of former Al-Badr commander Hamza Burhan, shot multiple times in Muzaffarabad in May 2026 in what sources state bore the hallmarks of a RAW-linked targeted assassination. It follows a sustained and documented pattern of prominent Kashmiri resistance and liberation figures being killed or targeted across AJK and Pakistan over recent years.

The killing of a high-profile JKLF commander during a legitimate rights march, by Police or otherwise, in the midst of a crisis that Kashmir Conflict has documented as having been significantly inflamed by Indian intelligence interference, is another devastating blow to stability in AJK and to the broader Kashmiri liberation movement. Whether Commander Farooq Khan's death was a targeted political assassination, an act of excessive force, or something in between, the investigation cannot be left in the hands of the same Police apparatus that fired the shot. An independent inquiry is the minimum this situation demands. His killing deserves answers that the AJK government has so far shown no sign of providing.

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