 Mohammad Shafi Qureshi

Mohammad Shafi Qureshi (24 November 1928 – 28 August 2016) was a prominent Indian politician and statesman from Kashmir and the founder of the Congress Party in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.He was born on 24 November 1928 in Kashmir to contractor Haji Mohammad Amin Abbasi who was the first transporter of Union Council Birote, near Kohala Bridge District Abbottabad, Pakistan before 1947.