Srinagar
Former Additional Secretary (Home) in Jammu and Kashmir and former Vice Chancelor Aligarh Muslim University Mehmood Ur Rahman passed away on Friday. He hailed from Lucknow.
He had a long association with kashmir politically, adminsitratively and academically.
During Hazratbal seige he and Wajahat Habibulla were nagotitors. While onway back from his Hazratbal they were hit with an army vehicle outside UNMOGIP office in Sonwar Srinagar.
He became Vice Chancelor of Aligarh Muslim University in 1995. A Kashmir student of the varsity at that time told Kashmir He was greeted with pro Kashmir graffities in AMU campus. It was turbulent times in AMU .
Offlate he was associated with BJP. There were reports that he might get governorship
He was very instrumental in getting many Kashmiris admitted in AMU campus as those days worried parents in Kashmir would send their wards to AMU to keep them away from militancy.
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