Yasin Malik is the most prominent leader of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (Yasin Malik). His movement is a separatist one and he spent almost whole of his life in jail and in interrogations. Yasin Malik originally came to prominence as a militant in JKLF and underwent training on arms and ammunition in Pakistan based training camps. He has admitted to have killed a group of unarmed Indian Air Force men while they were waiting for their transportation to arrive in period of 1989-1994 - in his interview with Tim Sebastian.He later surrendered and since 1995, Yasin Malik has renounced violence and calls for strictly peaceful methods to come to a settlement on the Kashmir Conflict.
Yasin Malik also considers the Hindu Kashmiris to be an integral part of Kashmiri society and has insisted on their right of return.Some senior leaders of JKLF like Javid Ahmad Zargar, Javed Mir, Salim Nannaji, Bitta Karate, Iqbal Gundroo and others formed a united JKLF with Farooq Siddiqi (Farooq Papa) as its chairman.In January 2009 it was reported that he was planning to marry Pakistani painter Mushaal Mullick who is famous for her racy paintings. It has been widely speculated that Yasin Malik's marriage with a Pakistani Woman is politically motivated and Indian and Pakistani intelligence agencies are heavily involved in this marriage.