Hurriyat trying to stage a comeback in new Kashmir
The Morning Standard
|October 28, 2024
AFTER remaining dormant for five years, Kashmir's separatist outfit Hurriyat Conference seems to have got a lease of life with the victory of National Conference early this month in the first Assembly polls since Article 370 was read down.
Since his release in September 2023 from five years of house arrest, Hurriyat Conference leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq's activities have been confined to addressing weekly Friday sermons at the historic Jamia Masjid in Srinagar. But now he appears to have become very active, responding to the killing of migrant labourers by terrorists in Kashmir, commenting on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's talks at the BRICS meet in Russia, and trying to revive the Hurriyat by meeting other leaders of the group.
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