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Mirwaiz Mohammad Umar Farooq (born 23 March 1973) is the 14th Mirwaiz of Kashmir. He is a Kashmiri separatist political leader. He is also an Islamic religious cleric of Kashmir Valley. In October 2014, Farooq was listed as one of The 500 Most Influential Muslims by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, Jordan.
Mohammad Farooq Shah commonly known as Mirwaiz Moluvi Mohammad Farooq was the Mirwaiz of his time in Kashmir—north of India— and chairman of All Jammu and Kashmir Awami Action Committee, a coalition of disparate political parties in Jammu and Kashmir that sought resolution of the Kashmir conflict.
The All Parties Hurriyat Conference was founded on 31 July 1993. [15] On 27 December 1992, the 19-year-old Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who had taken over as chairman of J&K Awami Action Committee (J&KAAC) and become the head priest of Kashmir after the assassination of his father Mirwaiz Farooq, called a meeting of religious, social and political organisations at Mirwaiz Manzil leading to the ...
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has been spearheading protests against Indian rule in the disputed region. He was detained ahead of India revoking Kashmir's special status in 2019 and throwing the Himalayan ...
Mirwaiz (Urdu: میر واعظ, from mir, chief and waiz, preacher) is a hereditary institution of head priests that is unique to the Kashmir Valley. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The traditional role of mirwaizes is to provide religious education in the shrines and mosques.
The Joint Resistance Leadership was formed by Yasin Malik, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Syed Ali Shah Geelani in 2016 during the 2016–2017 Kashmir unrest. [2] It has been actively involved in the actions which advocates separation of Kashmir from India. They issued the protest calendars in the Kashmir Valley in the form of shutdowns or marching ...
Jalil Farooq still remembers the ride back to Norman last time OU faced OSU in Stillwater.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was however chosen instead due to the secular organisations forming majority of the alliance. [32] Geelani became the chairman in 1998, [33] and was replaced by Abdul Ghani Bhat on 20 July 2000. [34]