Moderate Hurriyat chief Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was on Friday allegedly barred from stepping out of his home to address his first sermon at Srinagar’s Jama Masjid in years, calling into question lie...

Sinha, while speaking to the BBC, had said the Mirwaiz was not under house arrest and was a free man. "I will correct it," he had said when asked about the reasons for the "house arres...

Separatist dove Mirwaiz Umar Farooq’s likely release from a 20-month-long house arrest before Friday gave a fresh hope to the Valley’s embattled politicians of a renewed engagement between...

Delhi’s iron-fist policy seems to have felled Kashmir’s most familiar separatist, Syed Ali Shah Geelani. Geelani, 90, on Monday said he was parting ways from the Hurriyat, ending his deca...

Too busy fighting for azadi all these decades, the separatists have eventually woken up to the drug epidemic sweeping the state.Hurriyat dove Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has drafted in the ulemas (Islamic sch...

Many Kashmiris are intrigued at the silence of Hurriyat hawk Syed Ali Shah Geelani and the moderate Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on the revocation of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status and the clampdown that...

After avoiding the first two summons, moderate separatist leader and Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq on Monday appeared before the National Investigation Agency in connection with a c...

People in Jammu and Kashmir will be allowed to gather for Friday prayers at their local mosques, but not at Srinagar's Jamia Masjid, where Hurriyat moderate leader Mirwaiz Umer Farooq leads the prayer...

Kashmir’s Ulema council on Tuesday defended moderate Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who on Monday had rebuffed the National Investigation Agency’s summons to appear at its Delhi office, wa...

Srinagar, Feb 23 (PTI) Nearly 150 people, mainly from the Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir, were detained during the intervening night of Friday and Saturday as tension gripped the Valley ahead of a ...