text: The two JKLF factions claim that they are not Islamist, but are nationalist, and oppose a merger of the territories into either Pakistan or India.However in December 2005 the most senior leaders of JKLF separated from Yasin Malik and formed a united JKLF with Farooq Siddiqi(Farooq papa) as its Chairman along with Javed Mir, Salim Nannaji and Iqbal Gundroo later joined by the longest(16 years) imprisoned Kashmiri former militant Bitta Karate.