Hurriyat Conference
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Kashmiri Separatist Geelani seeks Indian passport, BJP seeks apology first
National | May 19, 2015, 06:31 PM ISTNew Delhi: The hard-line Hurriyat Conference chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani has applied for an Indian passport to visit his ailing daughter in Saudi Arabia.However, the ruling party in Jammu and Kashmir, BJP has opposed his
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Court reserves order on Masarat Alam's bail plea till Apr 25
National | Apr 22, 2015, 08:56 PM ISTSrinagar: A Budgam court today reserved its orders till April 25 on a bail application moved by hardline separatist leader Masarat Alam Bhat, who was arrested last week on sedition charges.Bhat's counsel had moved the
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Top Kashmiri separatist leaders share dais after 5 years
National | Apr 21, 2015, 09:09 AM ISTSrinagar: Top three Kashmiri separatist leaders -- Yasin Malik, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Syed Ali Geelani -- yesterday shared a common platform after five years at a rally in Narbal.The rally was organised to show
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Separatist leader Mirwaiz Farooq placed under house arrest
National | Apr 18, 2015, 07:16 PM ISTSrinagar: Authorities on Saturday placed several separatists, including moderate Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, under house arrest even as a strike called by hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani over killing of two
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Separatist Yasin Malik arrested from hunger strike venue
National | Apr 18, 2015, 02:27 PM ISTSrinagar: Police today afternoon arrested Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik who was on a 30-hour long hunger strike against the government's supposed rehabilitation programme for Kashmiri Pandits. Malik was protesting against state government's
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Mirwaiz Umar Farooq placed under house arrest
National | Apr 18, 2015, 02:29 PM ISTSrinagar: Authorities today placed several separatists, including moderate Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, under house arrest even as a strike called by hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani over killing of two youths
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Masarat Alam to succeed Hurriyat hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani?
National | Apr 18, 2015, 02:04 PM ISTNew Delhi: Separatist leader Masarat Alam Bhat is fast emerging as a successor to the All Parties Hurriyat Conference(G) chief Syed Ali Shah Geelani (86) who is also a hardliner Kashmiri separatist. Masarat's party -- Muslim
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Kashmiri separatist leader Masarat Alam sent to 7-day police custody
National | Apr 18, 2015, 08:36 AM ISTSrinagar: A court here remanded separatist leader Masarat Alam Bhat, arrested over raising of pro-Pakistan slogans and hoisting Pakistan flags at a rally, to seven-day police custody.Alam was produced before a concerned judge who sent
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Know all about Kashmiri separatist leader Masarat Alam
India | Apr 17, 2015, 02:24 PM ISTMasarat Alam is a Kashmiri separatist leader. He is at present the general secretary of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani.Masarat was a member of the Hizbullah militant group, when
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Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz to attend Pakistan Day function in Delhi
India | Mar 22, 2015, 08:57 PM ISTNew Delhi: Ahead of attending the Pakistan Day function here on Monday, moderate Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Sunday said the grouping wants to lend full support to the India- Pakistan dialogue on
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Pak High Commissioner to meet Hurriyat's Mirwaiz tomorrow
India | Mar 22, 2015, 07:56 PM ISTSrinagar/New Delhi: Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit will meet moderate Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq tomorrow during which a host of issues are expected to come up and he will also be apprised of
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Separatists demand J&K govt to release former militants
National | Mar 06, 2015, 06:07 PM ISTSrinagar: Separatists have demanded from Jammu and Kashmir government to include the release of former militants in its latest order directing police department to initiate a process of freeing all those political prisoners against whom
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Fate of Lakhvi entirely in hands of court, Pakistan tells India
World | Feb 19, 2015, 08:40 AM ISTNew Delhi: Islamabad recently sensitized Delhi about its progress towards Jamaat-ud-Dawa's (a frontline for Laskar-e-Taiba) ban and fate of Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, the main suspect of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.During the string of under-the-radar meetings
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PM Modi's poll rally in Valley: Hurriyat Conference's Geelani calls for shutdown
National | Dec 02, 2014, 08:39 PM ISTSrinagar: Hardline Hurriyat Conference chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Tuesday called for a shutdown on December 8 to protest against the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who will hold his first election campaign
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Partial response in Valley to strike call against Modi visit
India | Oct 23, 2014, 12:08 PM ISTSrinagar: The strike called by separatist groups against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Jammu and Kashmir today evoked a partial response in the Valley. Although most shops in and around the city centre of
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Hurriyat leader Geelani calls for Diwali shutdown to protest Modi visit
National | Oct 22, 2014, 02:17 PM ISTSrinagar: Hurriyat Conference led by Syed Ali Geelani has called for complete shutdown on October 23 (Thursday) Diwali to protest the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Kashmir.A Hurriyat spokesman issued a statement saying,
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Hurriyat calls for end of hostilities along border
India | Oct 08, 2014, 04:25 PM ISTSrinagar: Moderate wing of Hurriyat Conference today asked India and Pakistan to end hostilities along the border and resume the stalled dialogue process to resolve all the outstanding issues.“The situation arising due to border tensions
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Omar slams government for suspending talks with Pakistan
National | Aug 31, 2014, 01:59 PM ISTNew Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today attacked the Narendra Modi government for suspending talks with Pakistan over a “cup of tea” with separatist Hurriyat Conference and said India has set up
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Omar slams govt for suspending talks with Pakistan
India | Aug 31, 2014, 12:53 PM ISTNew Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today attacked the Narendra Modi government for suspending talks with Pakistan over a “cup of tea” with separatist Hurriyat Conference and said India has set up
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Change ground situation for political solution in Kashmir: Mehbooba Mufti
National | Jul 15, 2014, 02:24 PM ISTNew Delhi: The PDP will contest the forthcoming Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections on its own, says party chief Mehbooba Mufti, while stressing the need of an improved "ground situation", implementing suggestions for "self-rule" and