New Delhi: Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik has claimed that he spent nearly three decades as a key figure in a state-sanctioned “backchannel” mechanism, working with successive prime ministers, intelligence chiefs, and even business tycoons to foster peace in Jammu and Kashmir. In an 85-page affidavit submitted before the Delhi High Court, Malik, chief of the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), has shared details about his journey – from his school days to links with terrorists and meetings with political leaders. The affidavit was submitted after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) challenged Malik’s life sentence and pleaded to enhance the punishment to death penalty in a case of receiving foreign funding and maintaining links with terror groups. In the affidavit

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