[4] Asiya Andrabi was married to Qasim Faktoo (a founding member of the Hizbul Mujahideen) in 1990.
[5] She hoisted the Pakistan flag and sang the Pakistani national anthem in Kashmir on 25 March 2015.
[8] On 12 September 2015, she slaughtered a cow and released a video in a bid to defy the ban on sale of beef in Jammu and Kashmir.
[14] In pro-Pakistan activism and separatism, Asiya is senior to Syed Ali Shah Geelani who used to be a member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly in the 1980s when she founded Dukhtaran-e-Millat.
The cover story of the book was of Maryam Jameela, a Christian woman who converts to Islam after studying the religion thoroughly.
[12] Asiya shot into prominence in the late 1980s when she launched the DeM essentially against social vices.
[12] Along with Masarat Alam (leader of the pro-Pakistan Muslim League), Asiya is believed to be one of the masterminds of the protests of 2010,[17] and they spearheaded the “Quit Jammu and Kashmir” campaign.
One of the campaigns of the Darsgah was to demand reserved seats for ladies in local buses while other was to remove posters of nude women across the cinema halls – before the era of Militancy started in the valley.
They told my father that I was mobilizing women against India but he retorted saying that I was just trying to bring social reform,” she recalls.
[18] She was arrested on 28 August 2010 by Jammu and Kashmir Police for waging war against India and for inciting violence.
The cases included waving Pakistani flags and addressing, via phone, a conference in Pakistan recently.
[23] On 6 July 2018 Asiya and two others connected to her, Nahida Nasreen and Sofi Fahmeeda, were shifted from Srinagar jail and brought to New Delhi by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).