Mirwaiz Umar

Senior separatist leader and Chief cleric, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was placed under house arrest on Friday, Anjuman-e-Auqaf Jamia Masjid Srinagar said in a statement.

Kashmiri separatist Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, released today from house arrest after four years, delivered his first sermon at Srinagar's historic Jamia Masjid and batted for peace in Kashmir.

The iconic Jamia Masjid in Srinagar - the largest mosque in Kashmir - was today opened for Friday prayers after a long closure over security reasons and pandemic. Over 3,000 men and women attended the congregational prayers, officials said.

Separatist Mirwaiz Umar Farooq appeared before the National Investigation Agency today for questioning in connection with the Jammu and Kashmir terror funding case. The centre had indicated that it will adopt a zero tolerance policy for all separatists amid a major crackdown on separatists since the Pulwama terror attack. He reached Delhi this morn...

With the centre indicating that it will adopt a zero tolerance policy against all separatist leaders, Awami Action Committee chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq might face arrest if he does not appear for questioning before the National Investigation Agency in Delhi on Thursday in connection with the Jammu and Kashmir terror funding case.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has summoned Jammu and Kashmir's separatist Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and son of Hurriyat hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Naseem Geelani, for questioning in its ongoing probe into the terror funding case.

The government will no longer provide any security to separatists in Jammu and Kashmir, sources said. The order from the state administration, issued three days after the deadly terror attack on a CRPF convoy in Pulwama that cost over 40 lives, said all security and vehicles provided to the separatists will be withdrawn by this evening.

The Jammu and Kashmir administration today issued orders to withdraw security of five separatists, including Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, officials said.

India today summoned Pakistan High Commissioner Sohail Mahmood over Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi's telephonic conversation with Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq. The conversation, ahead of the coming national elections, was a "brazen attempt to subvert India's unity and to violate its sovereignty and territorial integrity," the External...

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi's telephonic conversation with separatist Mirwaiz Umar Farooq reflected the duplicity in Pakistani leadership's approach on ties with India, official sources said on Tuesday

A group of masked young men stormed into the historical Jamia Masjid in Srinagar with ISIS flags and created a ruckus on Friday, provoking condemnation from the mosque's management committee as well as separatists.

Separatist leaders Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik were arrested after they tried to takeout a march in Srinagar against the killing of seven civilians during an encounter in south Kashmir's Pulwama on Saturday.

The chief of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front Yasin Malik was today detained while moderate Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was placed under house arrest to prevent the separatists from leading protests, police said.

JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik was detained from his residence in Srinagar, while moderate Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was placed under house arrest on Saturday.

Just days after Home Minister Rajnath Singh said India was ready for talks with Pakistan if the latter took some initiative, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj denied any softening of India's stand.

Senior separatist leader and Chief cleric, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was placed under house arrest on Friday, Anjuman-e-Auqaf Jamia Masjid Srinagar said in a statement.

Kashmiri separatist Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, released today from house arrest after four years, delivered his first sermon at Srinagar's historic Jamia Masjid and batted for peace in Kashmir.

The iconic Jamia Masjid in Srinagar - the largest mosque in Kashmir - was today opened for Friday prayers after a long closure over security reasons and pandemic. Over 3,000 men and women attended the congregational prayers, officials said.

Separatist Mirwaiz Umar Farooq appeared before the National Investigation Agency today for questioning in connection with the Jammu and Kashmir terror funding case. The centre had indicated that it will adopt a zero tolerance policy for all separatists amid a major crackdown on separatists since the Pulwama terror attack. He reached Delhi this morn...

With the centre indicating that it will adopt a zero tolerance policy against all separatist leaders, Awami Action Committee chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq might face arrest if he does not appear for questioning before the National Investigation Agency in Delhi on Thursday in connection with the Jammu and Kashmir terror funding case.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has summoned Jammu and Kashmir's separatist Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and son of Hurriyat hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Naseem Geelani, for questioning in its ongoing probe into the terror funding case.

The government will no longer provide any security to separatists in Jammu and Kashmir, sources said. The order from the state administration, issued three days after the deadly terror attack on a CRPF convoy in Pulwama that cost over 40 lives, said all security and vehicles provided to the separatists will be withdrawn by this evening.

The Jammu and Kashmir administration today issued orders to withdraw security of five separatists, including Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, officials said.

India today summoned Pakistan High Commissioner Sohail Mahmood over Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi's telephonic conversation with Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq. The conversation, ahead of the coming national elections, was a "brazen attempt to subvert India's unity and to violate its sovereignty and territorial integrity," the External...

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi's telephonic conversation with separatist Mirwaiz Umar Farooq reflected the duplicity in Pakistani leadership's approach on ties with India, official sources said on Tuesday

A group of masked young men stormed into the historical Jamia Masjid in Srinagar with ISIS flags and created a ruckus on Friday, provoking condemnation from the mosque's management committee as well as separatists.

Separatist leaders Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik were arrested after they tried to takeout a march in Srinagar against the killing of seven civilians during an encounter in south Kashmir's Pulwama on Saturday.

The chief of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front Yasin Malik was today detained while moderate Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was placed under house arrest to prevent the separatists from leading protests, police said.

JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik was detained from his residence in Srinagar, while moderate Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was placed under house arrest on Saturday.

Just days after Home Minister Rajnath Singh said India was ready for talks with Pakistan if the latter took some initiative, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj denied any softening of India's stand.