Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government on Sunday justified curbs on movement of hardliner Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, saying his provocative speeches invariably lead to serious law and order problems in the Kashmir Valley. "Whenever Geelani is allowed to address (a) gathering at any place, it is followed by largescale stone pelting and attacks on police and paramilitary forces, leading to serious law and order problem," a government...
11:49 PM, Sep 04, 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: Authorities in Srinagar have put hard line Hurriyat Conference Chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani under house arrest as a preventive measure, officials said on Friday. Geelani was placed under house arrest since Thursday evening as there were apprehensions that he might lead protests after Friday prayers, the officials said. Some people had indulged in stone-pelting after Geelani's address to the gatherings on May 6 at Batamaloo in the city....
01:26 PM, Jun 10, 2011
Srinagar: Normal life was on Saturday partially affected in the Kashmir Valley due to a strike called by hardline Hurriyat Conference led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani demanding release of all political prisoners in the state. While the commercial hub of Lal Chowk and adjoining areas remained closed, the strike evoked little response in Civil Lines and sub urban areas of the city, officials said. The government offices functioned normally...
12:35 PM, May 14, 2011
Srinagar: Hardline Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has asked people to hold funeral prayers on Friday for Osama bin Laden, the founder of al Qaeda who was shot dead in Pakistan on May 2 by a US Navy team. Geelani has appealed to Imams and people to hold funeral prayers in absentia for bin Laden after Friday prayers tomorrow afternoon, a Hurriyat spokesman said in a statement. Terming...
06:54 PM, May 05, 2011
New Delhi: The city police om Tuesday told a Delhi court that it was still probing the sedition case against hardline Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, writer Arundhati Roy and four others for making alleged anti-India speeches last year. The Station House Officer (SHO) of the Tilak Marg police station made this submission before Metropolitan Magistrate Navita Kumari Bagha in his latest probe status report filed in the...
07:24 PM, Apr 19, 2011
New Delhi: The recently unearthed Hawala trail in the Kashmir valley points to money being allegedly passed to senior Hurriyat leaders including Syed Ali Shah Geelani following which the separatist leader has been asked not to leave Delhi to face investigations. Sensing trouble, the Hurriyat faction led by Geelani, who is leader of Jamaat-e-Islami, attempted to downplay the investigations in the Hawala case and announced a bandh call in the...
08:18 PM, Feb 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
New Delhi: A petition seeking action against hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Geelani, writer Arundhati Roy and four others for allegedly making anti-India speeches last year was withdrawn from the Delhi High Court on Thursday after Delhi Police told the court that a police complaint has already been lodged. "Now, the petition becomes infructuous," Justice Mukta Gupta said, taking note of the police submission that a first information report (FIR)...
07:20 PM, Jan 27, 2011
Srinagar: Hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has called for Kashmir shutdown on the occasion of Republic Day from January 25. Geelani has also asked people not to send their children to participate on the Republic Day celebrations. Moderate separatist leader Yasin Malik, chairman of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, has also questioned BJP's motive for the flag-hoisting decision. Meanwhile the BJP has given a call for Jammu bandh...
03:04 PM, Jan 25, 2011
New Delhi: Writer Arundhati Roy, Hurriyat hawk Syed Ali Shah Geelani and others were on Monday booked on charges of sedition by Delhi Police for their "anti-India" speech at a seminar here last month. The filing of the FIR came following a directive from a local court on Saturday on a Petition filed by Sushil Pandit who alleged that Geelani and Roy made anti-India speeches at a conference on "Azadi-the...
09:42 PM, Nov 29, 2010
New Delhi: The Patiala House Court in New Delhi on Saturday directed Delhi Police to register FIR against Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, writer-activist Arundhati Roy and five other accused on charge of sedition for their alleged anti-India statements. The cases will be registered under Indian Penal Code Section 124 (A) (sedition), Section 121 (raising war against India), Section 153 (A), Section 153 (B) and Section 295 (spreading...
05:08 PM, Nov 27, 2010
New Delhi: In a veiled attack on Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), Janta Dal (United) on Wednesday said a demand for action against hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani and writer Arundhati Roy for their speech on Kashmir was an "overreaction" and was "childish". Party spokesman Shivanand Tewari also saw nothing wrong in BJP MP Ram Jethmalani coming out in support of the Kashmir interlocutors led by Dileep Padgaonkar. The...
01:47 PM, Oct 27, 2010
New Delhi: The Centre reluctant to press charges of sedition against book writer-activist Arundhati Roy for her strong comments on Kashmir, sources said. The Government does not want to escalate the situation based on comments made by an individual. Also with US Presdient Barack Obama's visit in November, the Government does not want to internationalise the issue. Constitutional experts and eminent senior lawyers seem to agree with the Government's plan....
07:32 AM, Oct 27, 2010
New Delhi: Civil rights groups have protested Delhi Police's reported move to book writer-activist Arundhati Roy for sedition. Talking to CNN-IBN, National Advisory Council (NAC) member and social activist Aruna Roy defended Arundhati's right to express her opinion. "Well I speak for myself and not as an NAC Member. I simply do not believe. Neither for Arundhati nor for any other person, that just by expressing an opinion you become...
11:16 AM, Oct 26, 2010
New Delhi: Delhi Police are ready to book hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani and writer-activist Arundhati Roy for sedition. However the question that arises is will the Government give political clearance? Is the Government contemplating action against Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Arundhati Roy for their controversial statements a few days ago at a seminar in Delhi? After days of debate and criticism- the government may take action...
07:40 AM, Oct 26, 2010
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday slammed the Centre for allowing Kashmiri separatists to make anti-India speeches in New Delhi. Senior BJP leader and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley castigated the Centre for the speech made by Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani saying freedom of speech too has constitutional limits. "Yesterday (Thursday) the country was shocked when separatists met under the nose...
12:27 PM, Oct 22, 2010
New Delhi: Kashmir protest unfolded in Delhi on Thursday while Hardline Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani attended a seminar organised by a committee for release of political prisoners. There was heavy sloganeering between the groups present inside the hall when one of the speakers Professor Sujatha Rao raised the Azaad kashmir pitch and said the Indian state should be given to Kashmir azadi. The seminar was titled ‘Azadi...
03:59 PM, Oct 21, 2010
Srinagar: Schools are open for the second day on Tuesday despite a call to students from the separatist Hurriyat leadership to boycott classes in Kashmir. Attendance in Srinagar schools is thin while moderate attendance is reported from other parts of the valley because of security restrictions. Students attended classes for the first time in three months on Monday. In a few places, students were sent home in a few hours...
11:04 AM, Sep 28, 2010
