Dr Sameer Kaul, a Kashmiri Pandit and Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani's [ Images ] personal physician, speaks about the other side of the hardline separatist.
Two men at the heart of Kashmiri separatism -- hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Yasin Malik, leader of the Jammu and Kashmir [ Images ] Liberation Front -- are alive today thanks to doctors from the Kashmiri Pandit community, which was forced to flee the valley with the onslaught of militancy in 1989.
Some years ago, a team of three doctors performed life-saving surgery on Geelani, now 81, in Mumbai [ Images ] after he was diagnosed with cancer.
Geelani survives on three-fourth of a kidney, and one of the doctors is now his personal physician.
Eighty per cent of Kashmiris will not agree with his ideology
