Sardar Arif Shahid was a Kashmiri nationalist leader who advocated the independence of Kashmir from both

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and

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's rule. He was killed on 14 May 2013 outside his house in Rawalpindi. His supporters allege that his Pakistan security forces killed him. Arif Shahid was also the first pro-independence Kashmiri leader who was killed in Pakistan.

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