Mirwaiz Farooq completes 4 years under house arrest, Anjuman Auqaf calls for his release

Anjuman Auqaf Jamia Masjid Friday said that Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir, Muhammad Umar Farooq has completed four years under house detention.

He completed four years of not being allowed as Mirwaiz to either propagate the centuries old tradition of Majlis-e waz-o- tableeg on Fridays at the Central Jama Masjid, nor offer obligatory Friday prayers, due to his continued house detention, which the Anjuman and Muslims of J&K strongly denounce, a statement issued here, said.

While all other religious activities are permitted and infact facilitated by the authorities, it is openly discriminatory that the Mirwaiz is barred from his duties as a Muslim head of J&K, the statement said.

Despite repeated appeals from people who are distressed by the incarceration of their Mirwaiz, the authorities are unmoved and unconcerned, it said.

Anjuman said that today on the occasion of Friday prayers, people present in Jama Masjid men, women, old and young all peacefully demonstrated against the continued incarceration of the Mirwaiz and holding placards and banners appealed to the authorities for his immediate the release.