Geelani, Omar on same page on JNU issues, caution against harassing Kashmiri students

Separatist Hurriyat Conference and Kashmir based human rights groups have come out in support of striking students and teachers of Jawaharlal Nehru University and have condemned registration of FIR against former Delhi University Professor SAR Geelani. Separatist Hurriyat Conference and Kashmir based human rights groups have come out in support of striking students and teachers of Jawaharlal Nehru University and have condemned registration of FIR against former Delhi University Professor SAR Geelani. They also condemned alleged harassment of Kashmiri students in various campuses in Delhi and other places. Already former…

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Geelani, Malik, Mirwaiz call for shutdown on Feb 9, 11

Kashmir’s top separatist leadership on Tuesday called for a complete shutdown on February 9 and February 11 on the anniversaries of Muhammad Afzal Guru and Muhammad Maqbool Bhat respectively. The Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani called for complete and state-wide shutdown on 9th and 11th February and appealed people to hold special prayers on these days as a tribute to Afzal Guru and MaqboolBhat who were executed on these days respectively. While reiterating his demand for the return of the mortal remains of Bhat and Guru who were…

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Geelani, Andrabi oppose Gulmarg NY events as ‘cultural aggression’

scribing the New Year celebrations as an act of “cultural aggression” aimed to disconnect Kashmiris from religion, society and its rich heritage, Hurriyat hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani and another separatist Asiya Andrabi on Tuesday asked the Kashmiri people to stay away from year-end festivities. The separatists were reacting to Jammu & Kashmir tourism department’s programme of taking a musical event to Gulmarg on December 31st. A Bollywood musical fest ‘Rooh-e-Saaz’ is being organized to kick off the New Year 2016, with some popular voices from the film industry chipping…

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Geelani, Malik attack CM Mufti Sayeed for praising PM Modi

Separatist leaders Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Yasin Malik on Tuesday attacked Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed for showering praise on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “The puppet Chief Minister’s praise of Modi and Hindu fanatic RSS is reflective of his ideological and physical slavery. In fact, Mufti Sayeed is working as a bridge for the RSS to sacrifice Jammu and Kashmir to the communal forces,” Geelani, chairman of hardline Hurriyat Conference, said. Reacting to Sayeed’s statement that Modi is not “intolerant”, Geelani said he has “unmasked” himself. JKLF chief Mohammad Yasin Malik also…

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Geelani, Malik call for state- wide shutdown on Wednesday

Terming the death of three youths in Pattan area of Barramulla district as ‘cold blooded murder’, chairman Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Geelani has called for complete state-wide shutdown on Wednesday (September-16). Meanwhile, in a separate press release, JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik has also called for a shutdown tomorrow against the “cold-blooded murder” of three youths in Pattan area and one in Tengmarg area in Baramulah district. Malik appealed for a complete shutdown in the valley to condemn the deaths of four youth, whose bodies were found at two…

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Geelani, Mirwaiz, Malik, Shah, others put under house arrest

Police put several separatist leaders under house arrest to stop them from participating in traders’ protest rally in Lal Chowk on the first flood anniversary on Monday. While Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Geelani continues to remain under house arrest, Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (M) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Chairman Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Muhammad Yasin Malik, senior separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah and other leaders were placed under house arrest late Sunday evening. Talking to us, Mirwaiz said he had met traders last week and agreed to…

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