Srinagar: Anjuman Auqaf Jama Masjid Srinagar has expressed resentment over the fact that a holy and important event like Shab-e-Baraat is not being held at Jama Masjid for the last four years because the Anjuman head Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir Dr Moulvi Muhammad Umar Farooq continues to be under “illegal and arbitrary” house detention since 5 August 2019. […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday said it will take a decision on early listing of petitions challenging the Centre’s decision to abrogate provisions of Article 370 which had given special status to Jammu and Kashmir. A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwala took note […]
Srinagar: The Anjuman Auqaf Jama Masjid Srinagar expressed strong disdain against the authorities for once again disallowing its incarcerated Chairman and Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir Dr Moulvi Muhammad Umar Farooq to address the faithful at the historic and central grand mosque after three years. The Anjuman in a statement said that as soon as Mirwaiz Umar Farooq stepped […]
Srinagar: Police on Saturday prevented a team of journalists from meeting Mirwaiz Umar Farooq who has not been allowed to leave his residence since August 4, 2019, his Awami Action Committee said, and dismissed Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha’s statement the separatist leader was not under house arrest. The Awami Action Committee said […]
SRINAGAR: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Friday said that Hurriyat Conference (M) Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq is not under house arrest. “Mirwaiz Umar Farooq is not under house arrest. We have kept cops around him for his safety,” Sinha said in an interview with BBC on Friday. “Even in 2019, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was not […]
Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference on Friday expressed amazement at the video statement given to a media agency by the LG Manoj Sinha, where he refuted that APHC chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq is under house detention for the past three years (since August 2019) and said that the armed forces’ vehicles and personnel stationed outside his house […]
Srinagar: Clashes broke out in Srinagar’s Nowhatta area on Friday as supporters of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq pelted stones at security forces to protest the separatist leader’s continued house arrest, even though it was expected that he would be allowed to come to Jamia today. Officials said police and other security personnel deployed in the area […]
Srinagar: Chairman Hurriyat Conference(M) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Saturday said the hanging and burial of Mohammad Afzal Guru at Tihar Jail would remain a “question mark over the functioning of Indian courts for times to come .” Mirwaiz said this during a visit to Guru’s family in Doabgah area of Sopore. He was accompanied by Agha […]