He was a Politician by profession. Dar originated from the town of Sopore where he worked with the Muslim league during 1970’s.[3] In this period, he was involved with Syed Ali Geelani and went to jail several times.[4] In the late 1980s, after the rigged 1987 elections,[5] he became a militant along with his friend Fazl-ul-Haq Qureshi.