Ahead of Yasin Malik's court sentence, Mehbooba Mufti said, "Jammu and Kashmir is a political problem, a lot of people have been hanged here or given life imprisonment but it did not solve the Kashmir problem, it complicated the matter more. I think the muscular policy will have dire consequences, they will not solve the problems but create more."
The court had earlier said that Malik had set up an elaborate structure and mechanism across the world to raise funds for carrying out terrorist and other unlawful activities in Jammu and Kashmir in the name of the "freedom struggle".
Yasin Malik has been charged with hatching a criminal conspiracy, waging war against the country, other unlawful activities and disturbing peace in Kashmir.