Haji Asgar Ali Karbalai is an Indian political and social leader from Kargil, Ladakh.

His father Ghulam Abass Karbalai was born in Karbala, Iraq into a Shia Muslim family and did his basic schooling studying Islamic theology there.

During the massacre of Shias in Iraq by Saddam Hussein's Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, Karbalai along with his family migrated to his hometown Kargil, in Jammu and Kashmir, India (now in Ladakh).

[1] He is vocal about supporting the Kashmiris based on centuries of traditional, economic and religious ties but is stiffly opposed to the idea of separatism.

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