11 Facts About Ayub Thakur

Muhammad Ayyub Thakur was a political activist and founder of London-based World Kashmir Freedom Movement.

Ayub Thakur's son Muzammil Ayub Thakur is an active representative member of the UK based NGO.

Ayub Thakur was born in 1948 in a farming family in Pudsoo village in district Shopian in Jammu and Kashmir.

Ayub Thakur had a keen interest in the social and political issues of Jammu and Kashmir.

In 1981, Ayub Thakur joined the Nuclear Engineering Department of King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah in Saudi Arabia as a lecturer.

Ayub Thakur subsequently obtained British travel papers which he used until his death in 2004.

Ayub Thakur regularly claimed that his family members, relatives and friends were subjected to house raids, torture and harassment by the Indian army [citation needed].

Ayub Thakur often claimed that his ancestral home in Kashmir was raided many a time and his parents threatened.

Ayub Thakur died at the age of 55, in London on 10 March 2004 after an illness.

Ayub Thakur's funeral was held at the London Central Mosque, Regent Park, and he was laid to rest at the Garden of Peace, in Greenford, West London, close to where he had been living for many years.

Ayub Thakur is survived by his wife, a son and two daughters.