Latest in Pegasus snooping list: Key Kashmiri leaders, Mufti’s family members and journalists

As many as 25 people from the Kashmir Valley were potential targets of surveillance through the Pegasus spyware between 2017 and mid-2019, a report published by The Wire said on Friday.

Those named in the report include Bilal Lone, SAR Geelani, two members of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), and family members of the former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti amongst others.

Several other politicians, human rights activists, journalists, and business persons from Kashmir also figure in the list, The Wire, a digital news portal that is part of the global investigative project looking into the database of numbers that may have been targeted by the spyware, said.