SRINAGAR: Kashmir's chief cleric and All Parties Hurriyat Conference Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq will send a legal notice to concerned authorities over his continuous house detention.
The managing body of Anjuman Auqaf Jama Masjid said Mirwaiz has been pushed to take the legal route to clarify his status and initiate proceedings for his release from house detention.

In a statement, Anjuman Auqaf Jama Masjid said that Mirwaiz Umar was again disallowed today from offering obligatory prayers for the consecutive 208th Friday at Jamia masjid.

The Anjuman said after LG Manoj Sinha’s latest interview where he said that “I have made up my mind … he ( Mirwaiz) will also offer Friday prayers at Jama Masjid“, people reached out to them to inquire if Mirwaiz will be coming to Jamia Masjid today.

“To get clarity on this , Anjuman reached the concerned Police authorities to ask if in the light of LG Sahabs statement Mirwaz will be allowed to come to Jama Masjid today. The concerned authorities said that they have not been intimated anything on this matter by the higher authorities and so cannot comment on it , so the status quo of detention continues,” the statement said.

Anjuman said that in view of these “conflicting statements” , and despite repeated appeals for his release from all quarters, and also in view of the LG Sahabs own statements, Mirwaiz continues to be under house detention for the last four years.

“Mirwaiz sahab has been pushed to take the legal route now, and has decided to send a legal notice to the concerned authorities to clarify his status and initiate proceedings for his release from house detention, so that his religious and other public obligations don’t suffer any further,” the statement said.

Anjuman said it is hopeful that Mirwaiz will get relief through the Courts and people eagerly awaiting his return to Jama Masjid pulpit.

Mirwaiz has been under house detention since August 5, 2019, when the special status of Jammu and Kashmir was revoked and the region split into two Union Territories. (UNI)

SRINAGAR: Renowned cleric and president Anjuman Shari Shian, Aga Syed Hasan Almosvi Alsafvi Monday demanded the immediate release of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and other incarcerated religious clerics.
  
While addressing a press conference in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district, he said Friday congregational prayers take place in every mosque and shrine but Jamia Masjid in Srinagar is frequently locked up.
  
“Mirwaiz Umar Farooq should be released so that he can perform his religious duties. The pulpit of Jamia Masjid is silent. I condemn the frequent closure of this historic mosque,” he said.
  
Aga Syed Hasan as per the news agency Kashmir News Trust said that besides Mirwaiz Umar Farooq all other incarcerated religious leaders should be freed. “I condemn the arrest of religious and other leaders,” he added. [KNT]

SRINAGAR: On the occasion of Last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, thousands of men, women and young people performed Friday prayer at the historical Jama Masjid Srinagar by prostrating themselves before the Almighty Allah, doing Tauba-Wa-Istighfaar - repenting over their sins and seeking forgiveness from their Lord.

However, the people were once again disappointed over the absence of their beloved leader Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir Dr Moulvi Muhammad Umar Farooq who is under house detention for the last nearly four years due to which the Mimbar and Mihraab of the grand mosque continue to remain silent.

On the occasion, a spokesperson of the Anjuman conveyed the Eid-ul-Fitr message of the detained Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir to the people in a huge public gathering and appealed to them to celebrate Eid with simplicity according to Islamic teachings. They were urged to remember the poor, needy, backward and disadvantaged people of society in the festivities.

The Anjuman expressed strong resentment against the continuous illegal and arbitrary detention of Mirwaiz –e-Kashmir and said the authorities should change their dictatorial attitude and release him before  Eid

On the occasion, the people raised their voices for the immediate and unconditional release of Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir.

Meanwhile, the Anjuman said that the Eid prayers  are going to be offered after three years at Jama Masjid Srinagar inshallah and according to the programme, the Eid prayer will be offered at 09:00 am, In Sha Allah.

The people were urged  to come before time and show Islamic unity and discipline on the occasion. (CNS)