The Latest Breaking News from Mirwaiz Umar Farooq

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq sends legal notice to J&K govt. over his continuous detention at his residence. Notice states his liberty has been curtailed in an arbitrary manner, preventing him from participating in funerals, burials, and Friday prayers. He seeks lifting of restrictions.

Hurriyat chairman and Valley’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was disallowed to attend the Friday prayers at the Jamia Masjid in Srinagar, just a day after J&K Lieutenant Governor (L-G) Manoj Sinha stated that his administration was mulling to allow the Mirwaiz to visit the mosque under a security cover. Meanwhile,…

The Hurriyat and the J&K Peoples Conference (JKPC) on May 21 commemorated the death anniversaries of their party leaders, Mirwaiz Molvi Farooq and Abdul Ghani Lone, who were assassinated in two separate incidents on May 21 in 1990 and 2002 respectively.

Mirwaiz Farooq, former chief cleric of the Kashmir Valley, was killed at his residence in Srinagar’s Nigeen on May 21, 1990

Regional parties and locals say the ground is a ‘sacred space’ and want the govt. to construct the hospital elsewhere  

Head Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was not allowed to leave his residence for delivering the sermon on Friday.

“It is an opportunity to break the ice in their relationship and talk to each other and move forward in resolving their differences...” says the Mirwaiz

The Mirwaiz decided to deliver his first Friday sermon this week, for the first time since August 5, 2019

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