Flashback | J-K CM Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on intolerance

In an October 2015 interview with HT, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed spoke on intolerance, Kashmir and a secular India.

The Jammu and Kashmir chief minister passed away on Thursday morning at the Delhi AIIMS after prolonged illness. Jammu and Kashmir government has announced a holiday today and a seven-day mourning period as a mark of respect to Sayeed.

The 79-year-old leader who founded the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had been admitted to the premier hospital in Delhi with complaints of severe fever and neck pain. He had a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a progressive lung disease.