Farooq Abdullah (Kashmiri: फ़ारूक़ अब्दुल्लाह (Devanagari), فاروق عبدالله (Nastaleeq)), born 21 October 1937 in Soura, Jammu & Kashmir, India), is the son of Sheikh Abdullah, is a doctor of medicine and has served as chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir on several occasions since 1982.
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The major languages spoken in the region are Oriya or Odia (as substituted by the 96th amendment to Indian constitution), Telugu and Tribal languages like Soura and Kui.