Kashmir’s chief cleric and Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has been allowed to travel to New Delhi, for the first time since he was placed under house arrest in August 2019.
In a statement, a spokesman of the Anjuman Auqaf Jama Masjid said, “The Mirwaz-e-Kashmir was allowed by the authorities to travel to New Delhi on Monday. The Mirwaiz had conveyed the personal nature of his visit, after which the authorities gave him permission.”
All major separatist leaders in J&K are either in jail or barred from any holding any political activity, after the Centre ended the special constitutional position of J&K in 2019. It was followed by a massive crackdown on separatists and their supporters. It’s for the first time that any senior separatist leader is allowed to travel outside J&K since 2019.
