Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Released From House Arrest

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Released From House Arrest: Jammu Kashmir. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, chairman of All Party Hurriyat Conference, was under house arrest for 20 months.

Liberal Hurriyat Conference Chairman Mirwaiz Maulvi Umar Farooq has no excuse for not getting out of the house. On Thursday, the police formally announced his release from detention.

Now everyone’s eyes are on his Khutba (speech) to be given before the Namaz-e-Jumma at the Jamia Masjid on Friday.

At present, only those policemen are stationed outside his house, who were appointed to protect them from terrorists before 5 August 2019.

If favorable to the circumstances, he will also give a stance before the Namaz-e-Jumma at the historic Jamia Masjid in Nauhatta, down-town on Friday, after 82 weeks.

Liberation from the arrest of Mirwaiz Maulvi Umar Farooq is being considered in view of the ever-improving situation in Jammu and Kashmir and the resumed peace efforts in Hindustan-Pakistan.

It is noteworthy that before the implementation of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act on August 5, 2019, he was detained as a precaution on the late night of August 4, 2019.

He was kept at the Shere Kashmir International Convention Center SKICC for the first two days. Later he was kept under house arrest at his house in Nagin.

The administration ended his detention in November 2019 but he did not leave his house. He and his supporters have reportedly claimed that he has been kept under house arrest, so he is not going to the Jamia Masjid either.

In December 2019, the police also issued a statement claiming that Mirwaiz Maulvi Umar Farooq was not banned. Despite this, Mirwaiz did not come out of the house.

Arguing the presence of security vehicles outside his house, he had said that the claim of removal of detention is just a pretense.

Many people in Kashmir had said that they are shying away from facing people in the changed circumstances after Mirwaiz Maulvi Omar Farooq accused of house arrest.

He used to claim that the entire Kashmir is against Hindustan and with the Hurriyat. He used to show people’s dream of independence.

After what happened on 5 August 2019 and the Kashmiri Awam adopted the attitude, it was difficult for Mirwaiz Maulvi Umar Farooq and Company to hide their faces.

Therefore, he shied away from going to Jamia Masjid or going to any public place in Kashmir. However, during the last year and a half, he has reportedly made two trips outside Kashmir.

In July last year and thereafter in August, the administration officially placed Mirwaiz Maulvi Umar Farooq under house arrest for a few days.

In November, he was placed under house arrest as a precautionary measure in the wake of the DDC elections in Jammu and Kashmir.

A senior official of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir Administration said that the decision to remove the detention of Mirwaiz Maulvi Umar Farooq was taken on Sunday.

It was earlier discussed that he would be released on Wednesday morning and he would go to attend a seminar. However, this did not happen and he was released at around 1.15 pm this afternoon.

All additional security personnel and their vehicles stationed outside his house were removed. Along with this, the blockers placed on the road leading to his house were also removed.

Only a temporary blocker and only those policemen who were deployed in the name of security outside them are kept under normal circumstances.

Mirwaiz Maulvi Umar Farooq will now also visit the historic Jamia Masjid on Friday to perform Namaz-e-Jumma. In the Jamia Masjid itself.

Mirwaiz Maulvi Omar Farooq used to offer his prayers on Kashmir’s political and religious matters every Friday before August 5, 2019, before Namaz-e-Jumma. Based on his speech on Friday, Hurriyat’s strategy in Kashmir has been estimated.

On Friday itself, flags of Pakistani and terrorist organizations were waved in the Jamia Masjid and its adjoining areas, and stones were also used.

Now all the people who keep an eye on Kashmir affairs are paying attention to the proposed status of Mirwaiz Maulvi in ​​Jamia Masjid on Friday 5 March.

Everyone is watching what Mirwaiz will say after 5 August 2019 at Jamia Masjid, his status will pave the way for Hurriyat’s next strategy in Kashmir.

Mehbooba welcomed the release of Mirwaiz by tweeting

On the other hand, Mehbooba Mufti, former Chief Minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, has welcomed the termination of the arrest of Mirwaiz by tweeting.

She said that she was happy to hear that Mirwaiz was released from house arrest. It is now expected that the release of hundreds of Kashmiris in jails outside Jammu and Kashmir will also be done soon.

The release of Mirwaiz is believed to be a link between the joint statement of India and Pakistan in which the two countries promised to strictly abide by the border ceasefire agreement.

It is necessary to mention here that when Article 370 was abolished from Jammu and Kashmir on August 5, 2019, around 400 separatist leaders.

Leaders including former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, Omar Abdullah, and Farooq Abdullah of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir were also under house arrest. Most of them have been released so far.