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| name = Firdous Tak<br />
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1977}}<br />
| birth_name = Firdous Ahmed Tak<br />
| birth_place = [[Kishtwar]], [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]], India<br />
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| office = Additional Spokesperson of [[Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party]]<br />
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| term_start = 2022<br />
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| 1blankname = Lieutenant Governor<br />
| 1namedata = [[Manoj Sinha]]<br />
| 2blankname = President<br />
| 2namedata = [[Mehbooba Mufti]]<br />
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| office1 = [[List of members of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council|Member of Legislative Council]]<br />
| term_start1 = 3 March 2015<br />
| term_end1 = 16 March 2019<br />
| governor1 = [[Narinder Nath Vohra|N.N Vohra]], [[Satya Pal Malik]]<br />
| constituency1 = [[Kishtwar]]<br />
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| office2 = President of [[Sports in Jammu and Kashmir|J&K Water Sports Association]]<br />
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| term_start2 = 2015<br />
| term_end2 = 2021<br />
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| party = [[Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party]]<br />
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'''Firdous Ahmed Tak''' (born 1977) is an Indian lawyer, journalist, author, and politician from the [[Kishtwar district]] of Jammu and Kashmir and member of [[Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party|People's Democratic Party]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Firdous Ahmed Tak - People's Democratic Party|url=https://myneta.info/jk2014/candidate.php?candidate_id=73|access-date=15 December 2022}}</ref> He was elected as [[List of members of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council|member of legislative council]] from 2015 to 2019. He remained president of Jammu and Kashmir Water Sports Association from 2015 to 2021.<ref name="ks-2015">{{Cite news|date=21 December 2015|title=JK Water Sports Association Elects Body Tak Elected As President , MLA Wachi Aijaz Mir Senior Vice President |url=https://thekashmirscenario.com/jk-water-sports-association-elects-body-tak-elected-as-president-mla-wachi-aijaz-mir-senior-vice-president/|publisher=The Kashmir Scenario|access-date=15 December 2022}}</ref><ref name="et-gk">{{Cite news|date=6 July 2022|title=PDP gives mandate to GK Resident Editor Firdous Tak |url=http://www.earlytimes.in/m/newsdet.aspx?q=127449|publisher=Early Times|access-date=15 December 2022}}</ref> He also served as J&K Waqf Board member from 2015 to 2019.<ref name="kl-2015">{{Cite news|date=12 November 2015|last=Raafi|first=Muhammad|title=PDP's Tak Emphasises Educational Institutions to Adopt New Teaching Methods |url=https://kashmirlife.net/pdps-tak-emphasises-educational-institutions-to-adopt-new-teaching-methods-89624/|publisher=[[Kashmir Life]]|access-date=15 December 2022}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Firdous Tak has worked as a journalist with [[Los Angeles Times]]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Indian Major Among Bomb Victims in Contested Kashmir|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-dec-06-fg-kashmir6-story.html|date=6 December 2006|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=15 December 2022}}</ref> and as of 2022, he is the resident editor of [[Greater Kashmir]].<ref name="et-gk"/> He is also a columnist at [[Indian Express]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Firdous Tak|url=https://indianexpress.com/profile/columnist/firdous-tak/|publisher=[[The Indian Express]]|access-date=15 December 2022}}</ref><br />
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On 3 March 2015, Tak was elected as [[List of members of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council|Member of Legislative Council]] during PDP-BJP alliance.<ref name="kl-2015"/> He was also appointed president of [[Sports in Jammu and Kashmir|J&K Water Sports Association]] in the same year.<ref name="ks-2015"/><br />
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==Further reading==<br />
*{{cite book<br />
| last = Tak<br />
| first = Firdous <br />
| title = Remembering MUFTI Mohammad Sayeed<br />
| publisher = <br />
| year = 2017<br />
| location = Jammu and Kashmir, India<br />
| isbn = 9788183395991}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:1977 births]]<br />
[[Category:Living people]]<br />
[[Category:People from Kishtwar district]]<br />
[[Category:Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party politicians]]<br />
[[Category:Kashmiri politicians]]<br />
[[Category:Members of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council]]<br />
[[Category:21st-century Indian politicians]]<br />
[[Category:Indian columnists]]<br />
[[Category:21st-century Indian journalists]]<br />
[[Category:Journalists from Jammu and Kashmir]]<br />
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