Separatist leader Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, who continues to be under house arrest, in a statement extended ‘heartfelt condolences and sympathies with the bereaved family of ML Bindroo (chemist) and others’.
The Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umer Farooq said he hopes the formation of new government in Afghanistan will put an end to uncertainty in the country.
In a statement, Hurriyat said: ‘It is so tragically inhuman when a family is denied the basic right of burial of their loved one’.
Hurriyat Conference asked the J&K administration to revoke the dismissal or give the employees a ‘fair chance’ to challenge the charges levelled against them.
This is the major political statement issued by the Hurriyat Conference led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in recent months.
The Hurriyat Conference feel unfortunate, as their chairman has not been released even in the month of Ramzan from his "arbitrary" detention.
‘We urge the governments of India and Pakistan to give up belligerence and come to the table to resolve the J&K dispute,’ the party said.
Breaking its long silence, the Hurriyat Conference Wednesday called new Jammu and Kashmir land laws “anti-people”.
A year after abrogation of Article 370, a rare statement from Hurriyat Conference.
Moderate separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said both India and Pakistan should implement the recommendations reiterated in the UNHCR report from 2018 and move forward on the resolution of “the internationally acknowledged issue.”
The Mirwaiz was addressing prayers at the Jama Masjid here on the occasion of 'Jumat-ul-Vida', the last Friday of Ramzan.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday questioned Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq for the second consecutive day in connection with terror funding case.
Senior separatist leader Mirwaiz Umer Farooq appeared before the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday in connection with a terror funding case, officials said.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Thursday said the administration's decision to ban movement of civilian vehicles on Jammu and Kashmir national highway for two days a week was 'anti-people and dictatorial'.
The Kashmir Valley on Friday came together to denounce terror attack at two New Zealand mosques that killed at least 49 people saying the brutality proved that there is no place terrorism cannot reach.
NIA has also summoned Naseem Geelani, son of senior separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani.
Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti Sunday said the NIA summons to moderate Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq were emblematic of the Centre's 'repeated assaults on our religious identity'.
The Mirwaiz and Naseem Geelani have been asked to appear at the National Investigation Agency (NIA) headquarters in New Delhi on Monday, the agency officials said.
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