Qazi Ahmed Yasir is a Kashmiri political leader, the suspended Mirwaiz of southern Kashmir and a renowned scholar.
[citation needed] Yasir returned to Kashmir Valley in 2006, and in April 2007, he led a hunger strike[4] against a wine shop in the district that had been opened near two educational institutes.
In 2008, he led the agitation in Southern Kashmir against SASB[5][6] After the same, the demand rose against the saffron terrorists who blocked rations and supplies to the valley at Jammu.
In 2009 he led an agitation against a sex scandal involving many people backed by state and law enforcement agencies.
[8] In 2004, he returned to the valley to find himself arrested when he was scheduled to address a pro-freedom group at Seer, a village in southern Kashmir.
[10] Mirwaiz Qazi Ahmed Yasir and Ummat e Islami worked for relief and rehabilitation operations during the catastrophic floods that hit the state.
In 2015, he was arrested several times and he also challenged the government openly on the controversial "beef ban" Mirwaiz Yasir.
[15] After his release in November 2016, Mirwaiz Qazi yasir became more militant in his approach towards the Pro Freedom struggle.