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Mirwaiz calls for dialogue, trust restoration in Kashmir

January 03, 2026

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The Statesman Kolkata

In a hard-hitting statement posted on social media on the first Friday of the year, Kashmir's chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said that despite unilateral changes made in 2019, the reality is that the Kashmir conflict continues to keep the region in a state of uncertainty that can erupt at any time.

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Mirwaiz, said he was not allowed to go to the Jama Masjid in Srinagar to deliver the Friday sermon, and wrote: "That is why wars are paused, not ended, and dialogue finds no takers."

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