The career of Kashmiri journalist Yusuf Jameel, one of the leading reporters
on the strife in Indian-held Kashmir, has been marked by violent reprisal --
beatings, grenade attacks, and, last fall, a letter bomb addressed to him that
killed a colleague.
Formerly a correspondent for the BBC and a stringer for Reuters and Time magazine, Jameel presently works as a reporter in Delhi for the daily newspaper Asian Age. He returned to Kashmir in September to report on the first state-assembly elections there since the strife began in 1989. But getting the story was not the only purpose of Jameel's trip. He had returned to attend a memorial service by Kashmiri journalists for Mushtaq Ali, a cameraman with Asian News International and Agence France-Presse. Ali was fatally injured in September 1995 when he opened a letter bomb addressed to Jameel, who was working for the BBC at the time. Jameel sustained only minor injuries. Soon after, he relocated to London, where he worked for the BBC for several months more before returning to India.