Banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik’s long affidavit submitted to the Delhi High Court has named former Prime Ministers, top intelligence officers, businessmen and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leaders among those he engaged through the backchannels during his “34 years of political life”.

The affidavit of Malik, 60, is in response to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) seeking death penalty for him in a terror funding case, in which he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2022 and is currently lodged in the Tihar jail. Malik said he was a “diehard romantic, and would accept the ultimate endgame of my fate, gleefully”.

In the 85-page affidavit, Malik highlighted his engagement with previous governments after he was jailed for launching an arme

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