Washington: Separatist Kashmiri leader and Chairman of the moderate Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umer Farooq is "supported and controlled" by ISI, a US Attorney has claimed before a court. Attorney Neil H MacBride made the claim before the US District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, ahead of the scheduled sentencing of Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai who had set up an organisation Kashmiri American Council in the US to promote the separatist cause....
06:24 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Srinagar: Some separatist groups on Sunday said they are not against talks with the Centre for resolution of the Kashmir issue but maintained that the government needs to take certain steps before resumption of the dialogue process. Moderate Hurriyat Conference Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said his faction was not against dialogue and they were ready for a meaningful dialogue between India, Pakistan and leadership of Kashmir. "The talks should not...
04:10 PM, Jan 01, 2012
Srinagar: Hurriyat Chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq had a tough time in Sopore town today when supporters of pro-Pakistan separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani hurled 'Kangris' and stones. Sopore town, 55 km from here, has been the traditional bastion of Geelani, who heads the breakaway faction of Hurriyat, and his party Jamaat-e-Islamia and has frequently targeted Hurriyat leaders from the moderate rival faction. The supporters of the two factions clashed...
08:30 PM, Dec 16, 2011
New Delhi: In the backdrop of the shocking attack on senior lawyer and Team Anna member Prashant Bhushan, the question that arises is whether this is another example of how our society is getting even more intolerant. Many attempts have been made in the past to muzzle free speech. On November 26, 2010, Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq held a press conference in Chandigarh. Within minutes, his presser was intruded...
09:19 PM, Oct 12, 2011
New Delhi: The US embassy officials in New Delhi referred to top moderate separatist leaders including Mirwaiz Umar Farooq as "four musketeers" as Washington maintained "no contact" with hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani since 2001 for his ties with "terrorist groups". Apart from Mirwaiz, former amalgam chairmen Abdul Gani Bhat and Maulvi Abbas Ansari, and Bilal Lone were the other three "musketeers", the cables from the US Embassy released by...
09:21 PM, Sep 03, 2011
New Delhi: India has expresses its displeasure to Pakistan over the meeting between Hurriyat leader and Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar in New Delhi on Tuesday. External Affairs Minister SM Krishna is meeting Khar at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi with Kashmir and terror expected to dominate the talks. Khar met both the Hurriyat Conference factions during which the separatists sought Islamabad's intervention for release of Ghulam Nabi...
12:55 PM, Jul 27, 2011
Srinagar: Political developments in Jammu and Kashmir and matters of socio-economic importance came up for discussion in a meeting between British High Commissioner to India Sir Richard Stagg and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in Srinagar. An official spokesman said on Saturday that the outgoing British High Commissioner called on the Chief Minister on Friday and discussed various matters pertaining to the state during the hour-long meeting. Omar gave details of...
09:57 AM, May 28, 2011
Srinagar: The Centre's three interlocutors made their first contact with the moderate Hurriyat Conference in Jammu & Kashmir. The trio met the conglomerate's former chairman and Shia heavyweight Maulana Abbas Ansari. But whether or not Ansari had the endorsement of the current chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, he did take up the Hurriyat's four-point formula with the panel. Kashmir interlocutors head Dileep Padgoankar had commented, "We have met Maulana Abbas Ansari...
07:43 AM, Apr 21, 2011
Srinagar: The Centre's three interlocutors made their first contact with the moderate Hurriyat Conference in Jammu & Kashmir. The trio met the conglomerate's former chairman and Shia heavyweight Maulana Abbas Ansari. But whether or not Ansari had the endorsement of the current chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, he did take up the Hurriyat's four-point formula with the panel. Kashmir interlocutors head Dileep Padgoankar had commented, "We have met Maulana Abbas Ansari ...
07:43 AM, Apr 21, 2011
Jammu: The three interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir have for the first time sent formal invitation letters to four separatist leaders, urging them to sit across the table for talks. Dileep Padgaonkar, one of the three interlocutors, was quoted as saying in newspaper 'Greater Kashmir' that invites had been dispatched to the separatists to include their views in the report they will submit to the Central Government. "So far we...
11:52 AM, Feb 11, 2011
Srinagar: Rejecting a solution within the present framework, moderate Hurriyat Conference on Thursday called for a comprehensive dialogue between the three parties to the Kashmir issue to arrive at a negotiated settlement. "Time has come for India, Pakistan and representatives of Jammu and Kashmir to thrash out a negotiated settlement to Kashmir issue," Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq told reporters here. He, however, said a solution to Kashmir issue within...
04:53 PM, Dec 16, 2010
Srinagar: The moderate Hurriyat Conference on Wednesday said attacks on its leader during their tour to various cities were pre-planned and the Central government could not escape the blame for this. "The government cannot escape the blame for attacks on us during our visit to various cities to apprise people about the ground reality in Kashmir," said Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, the chairman of the Moderate Hurriyat. Talking to reporters here...
06:44 PM, Dec 01, 2010
New Delhi: The youth wing of BJP attacked Kashmiri separatist Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umer Farooq's car when he was entering Foreign Correspondent's Club to attend a seminar. As the news about his presence at the seminar came out, activists of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha assembled outside the venue and shouted slogans against Mirwaiz. Shouting slogans like "Bharat Mata ki Jai" and "Vande Mataram", the demonstrators hurled eggs, water bottles and...
07:55 PM, Nov 30, 2010
Kolkata: Moderate Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was greeted by another protest on Sunday at a seminar in Kolkata. He faced protests from members of BJP's student wing who hurled eggs at his vehicle here and diplayed banners, prompting police to arrest 25 of them, three days after he was heckled by right-wing activists in Chandigarh. The protest was carried out by the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) workers. Fifteen to...
01:32 PM, Nov 28, 2010
Srinagar: Curfew was imposed in the Old City areas of Srinagar to prevent protests and violence on Friday, a day after Kashmiri separatist leader Mirwaiz Umer Farooq was heckled at a seminar in Chandigarh, officials said. Curfew was clamped in five police station areas of Srinagar city - Nowhatta, MR Gunj, Rainawari, Khanyar and Safa Kadal. Hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani was placed under house arrest to thwart a...
05:29 PM, Nov 26, 2010
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