Tag: Syed Ali Geelani

Separatists’ strike disrupts normal life in Kashmir

Normal life was disrupted in Kashmir on Monday due to a strike called by separatists against the recent civilian killings in the Valley. Most of the shops, fuel stations and other business establishments were shut in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. They said public transport was sparse but private cars, …

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June 25, 2018

J-K: Restrictions in Srinagar to prevent protests

  Authorities imposed restrictions in parts of Srinagar city on Tuesday to prevent protests as the separatists called for a valley-wide shutdown against the killing of a civilian the day before in Pulwama district. The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL), a separatist conglomerate headed by Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik, has …

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May 1, 2018

Geelani, Mirwaiz not allowed to march to Shopian

Top separatist leaders Syed Alishah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq were detained by the police on Wednesday when they defied house arrest restrictions and tried to take out a solidarity march to Shopian where 13 terrorists and 4 stone-pelters were killed in encounters with security forces earlier this week. The separatists had announced that they …

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April 4, 2018

Separatist leaders Geelani, Mirwaiz try to defy house arrest

Senior separatist leaders Syed Ali Geelani and Mirwaiz Umer Farooq tried to defy house arrest restrictions on Wednesday in a bid to march to Shopian town in Jammu and Kashmir but were detained by police. Geelani tried to come out of his uptown Hyderpora residence but policemen posted outside prevented him from doing so. Geelani …

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April 4, 2018

Omar Abdullah chides government over Geelani

National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Tuesday chided the Jammu and Kashmir government over the much-hyped lifting of house arrest restrictions on separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani. Reacting to a news report which said police had restrained Geelani from attending the funeral prayers of a person killed during Sunday’s Shopian gun battles, Abdullah tweeted: “Why? …

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April 3, 2018

Srinagar restrictions continue after extension of separatist-shutdown

Restrictions continued in parts of Srinagar and some other places in the Kashmir Valley on Tuesday after separatists extended their protest shutdown against the killings of four civilians in Shopian district on Sunday. Restrictions will remain in force in seven police station areas of the city and other sensitive areas in south Kashmir to maintain …

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April 3, 2018

Geelani again rejects Dineshwar Sharma’s talks offer

Senior hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani on Friday again rejected the fresh offer for talks by centre’s special representative on sustained dialogue in Kashmir, Dineshwar Sharma. A statement, issued by G.A. Gulzar, spokesman of the Geelani-led Hurriyat, said: “All Parties Hurriyat Conference chairman, Syed Ali Geelani has rejected talks offer with India by an …

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March 16, 2018

Centre’s interlocutor meets Mehbooba

The Centre’s special representative Dineshwar Sharma called on Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti in winter capital Jammu on Wednesday at the end of his two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir, official sources said. During the meeting, Sharma briefed the Chief Minister about his consultations with a cross section of society during his visit to the north …

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December 27, 2017

Syed Ali Geelani admitted to hospital

Senior separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani was on Sunday rushed to hospital after he complained of abdominal pain and weakness, said informed sources. Sources close to Geelani said he was taken to the super specialty Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) at Soura here. Doctors said Geelani has been suffering of dehydration and general weakness …

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August 13, 2017

Police arrest three separatist leaders in Kashmir

Three separatist leaders were arrested here on Wednesday, a day before they were to be questioned by the NIA in Delhi. They include hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Geelani's son-in-law Altaf Ahmad Shah. The other two were identified as Ayaz Akbar and Mehrajudin Kalwal. All of them were taken to the Rajbagh police station. The …

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June 28, 2017

Geelani wants political activists freed before Eid

Hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani on Monday demanded the release of political activists in prisons in the Kashmir Valley before Eid-ul-Fitr. The octogenarian said in a statement that Eid would fall on June 25 or 26, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Geelani said the detention of political activists under the …

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June 12, 2017

Geelani suspends Nayeem Khan from Hurriyat after TV expose

Senior hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani on Saturday suspended Nayeem Khan's National Front from the Hurriyat, even as Khan told media that the sting operation by a news channel was "doctored and fake". In a sting operation conducted by India Today TV, Khan purportedly confessed to receiving funds from Pakistan to create unrest in …

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May 20, 2017

Separatist leaders Geelani, Mirwaiz, Yasin arrested

Police on Thursday arrested separatist leaders Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik here after they tried to stage a protest. The three were scheduled to hold a joint press conference at Geelani's residence for which the authorities denied them permission. The separatist leaders were taken into preventive custody and shifted to …

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March 16, 2017

Curfew imposed in parts of Srinagar

November 11, 2016

Curfew imposed in parts of Srinagar

November 11, 2016

Relation with India of occupier and occupied: Geelani

Senior hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani on Friday said the only relation between India and the people of Kashmir is that of an occupier and the occupied people. After his scheduled press conference was foiled by the authorities in Srinagar earlier in the day, Geelani issued a statement asking people to continue the ongoing …

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September 9, 2016

Ripun Bora appointed Assam Congress chief

Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday appointed Ripun Bora as president of Assam Pradesh Congress Committee. Bora has been appointed following the death of former Congress state unit president Anjan Dutta, who died following cardiac arrest in New Delhi on June 16. Bora was the vice-president of Assam Pradesh Congress Committee. He is a former …

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August 23, 2016