Episode 41 (2) | Kashmir Podcast With Ahmed Ali Fayyaz | Guest: Raja Aijaz Ali, Ex-IG J&K Police

Raja Aijaz Ali IPS retired as Inspector General after serving the Jammu and Kashmir Police for over 30 years in 2012. With a degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering, Raja joined the J&K Police after a brief stint with the Border Security Force. He served on several key positions in the J&K Police including SSP of Budgam, Pulwama and Srinagar, DIG Jammu-Kathua and IGP Crime. During his two terms as the District Police Chief in Srinagar, he handled some of the most challenging situations of his career including a virtual Police mutiny in 1993, a fierce encounter with the terrorists of JKLF (Amanullah Khan Group) in 1996 in which over 30 terrorists and two Police personnel got killed at the Kashmir valley's most revered shrine of Hazratbal. He also dominated news headlines as IGP Crime when one Haji Yousuf, a National Conference worker facing allegations of corruption and political manoeuvring, died in the Police custody a day after he was handed over for criminal investigation to the senior officer at the then Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's Srinagar residence in 2011. After his retirement from service in 2012, Raja joined Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and contested the Assembly election on the same party's ticket from his some segment of Uri in 2014. In 2018, he resigned from the PDP, joined PC and unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha election in 2019 from the northern Kashmir constituency of Baramulla-Kupwara. Himself a Pahari, he resigned from PC in 2022 and played a key role in winning the Scheduled Tribe status for the Pahari community. He is the guest in Episode-41 (Part-1 and Part-2) in "Kashmir Podcast With Ahmed Ali Fayyaz" on TALKISTAN. #talkistan​​​​​​​ #ahmedalifayyaz​​​​​​​ #jammukashmir​​​​​​ ​#kashmirpodcast​​​​​ #kashmirhistory​​​​​ #kashmirpolitics​​​​​ #kashmiroralhistory​​​​​ ​#kashmirmilitancy​​​​​ #RajaAijazAli​ #RajaAijaz​ #kashmirpolice​ #jkpolice​ #jkgovt​​​ #kashmir​​​ Subscribe to TALKISTAN to watch a new Kashmir podcast every week and make sure to enable Push Notifications so that you never miss a new video. Just press SUBSCRIBE and the BELL icon next to the SUBSCRIBE button. It is completely free. TALKISTAN on YouTube is operated by a team of professional print and television journalists headed by senior J&K-based journalist Ahmed Ali Fayyaz who has been a full-time professional journalist with different news and broadcasting organizations for over 30 years. It is a fully professional and independent media channel which neither seeks nor accepts any kind of advertisement support/election advertisements or any other favour from any political party or State, non-State, non-profit organization or individual. This is a purely independent professional initiative and is in no way linked or related to the media organizations for which its anchors and other functionaries are working in their individual capacities. Our podcasts with the most eminent personalities in different fields cover politics, governance, development, counterterrorism, economy, trade and tourism, fine and performing art, crafts. industry, culture, sports, film and mass media, education, science and technology especially medical science. Views expressed by our guests, as also the facts, figures and anecdotes given out by them are exclusively their own and not necessarily of the channel TALKISTAN or anyone associated with it. The entire content of a podcast is without any cross check of facts, verification and historical corroboration and subject to the viewers' own judgment and interpretation. All legal issues are subject to the jurisdiction of the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court at Srinagar. Also see the DISCLAIMER in the beginning of each programme. LEGAL ADVISORS Advocate Vasundhara Pathak Masoodi, Supreme Court of India Sr Advocate Jehangir Iqbal Ganai, Jammu and Kashmir High Court