Afzal Guru - Early Life

Early Life

He belonged to Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir. He had completed the first year of his MBBS course and was preparing for IAS exams. However, he became a member of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front where he received terrorist training and became involved in terrorist activities. Unhappy with the situation there, he moved back to Kashmir and surrendered to the Border Security Force. In a 2011 interview to Tehelka, he stated that his family had probably been Brahmins around seven centuries ago under Sikandars rule.

His native place is Sopore and he was doing a commission agency business,it was during this business venture that he came into contact with Tariq of Anantanag, who motivated him to join Jihad for liberation of Kashmir and assured him of financial assistance, Tariq introduced him to other millitants from Ghaziabad, Pakistan who were proclaimed offenders in Kashmir who further exhorted him to join the movement and apprised him of the mission to carry out attacks on important institutions in India like Parliament and Embassies and asked him to find a safe hideout for the 'Fidayeens' in Delhi.