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Senior Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani is no more

2021-09-02

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Senior Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah #Geelani is no more
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— Greater Kashmir (@GreaterKashmir) September 1, 2021

Senior separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani passed away after a long illness in Srinagar on Wednesday night, reports said.

He was 92.

Reports said that Geelani breathed his last around 10:30 pm at his residence in Hyderpora in uptown Srinagar.

Geelani, who was suffering from multiple ailments, had been keeping unwell for the past many years.

Quoting sources, news agency KNO reported that Geelani developed serious complications on Wednesday afternoon. "He had chest congestion and breathing problems. He passed away at 10:30 PM," the report quoted the sources as having said.

Following Geelani's death, Inspector General of Police, Kashmir
Kashmir

...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
, Vijay Kumar announced that they have imposed restrictions as a "precautionary measure". "Restrictions imposed including suspension of internet services in the Valley," Kumar told ANI news agency.

One India adds:

Authorities imposed a security clampdown in Kashmir late Wednesday after the death of separatist icon Syed Ali Geelani at the age of 92.

Troops put up barbed wire and barricades on roads leading to Geelani's house in the main city of Srinagar after the family announced the death, news agency PTI reported.

Announcements were made from loudspeakers of the main mosque near Geelani's residence asking people to march towards the house.

But police said no one in the Kashmir valley would be allowed to leave their homes. Thousands of security forces were immediately deployed and mobile internet services were cut across the area.

Scores of armoured vehicles and trucks patrolled main roads in Srinagar.

Another One India writes about Mr. Geelani:

The hardliner Islamist leader had resigned from politics and Hurriyat in 2020. His exit comes after he had headed it for 17 years.

Several Kashmiri political leaders have blamed Geelani for the rise in militancy and bloodshed in Kashmir. The Hurriyat leader has called for numerous general strikes or shutdowns, in response to the deaths of unnamed suspected militants, local militants and death of civilians in Kashmir.

Reportedly, Geelani calls Islamist leader and founder of the Jamaat-e-Islami, Abul A'la Maududi as his mentor.

Syed Ali Geelani was born in a town Sopore Baramulla, North Kashmir, on 29 September 1929, was viewed as a key separatist leader in Kashmir.

He was previously a member of Jamaat-e-Islami Kashmir but later on founded Tehreek-e-Hurriyat. He has served as the chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, a conglomerate of pro separatist parties in Jammu and Kashmir. He was an MLA from the Sopore constituency of Jammu and Kashmir in 1972, 1977 and in 1987.

Posted by:Fred

#1 A bit of history: Among the earliest and longest lived Muslim organization is the World Muslim Congress (Motamar Al-Alam Al-Islami) founded in Makka in 1926. Often called the World Islamic Congress, its first meeting was chaired by King Ibn Saud. Perhaps its most historically significant meeting was convened in Jerusalem in December 1931 with 130 delegates from 22 countries in attendance, during which Haj Amin al-Huseini declared that Zionism was an "agression" and calling for an economic boycott of the Jewish community in Palestine. The Congress was to be held every two or three years and it will later proclaim that after WWII it would "actively shape the agenda of the Muslim world." In fact, it also evolved into a meeting place for Muslim Brothers. The Congress met infrequently, with one general congress held in Cairo in 1937. (The Thrid Conference was held in Karachi in February 1951, with the Mufti presiding, where in effect he declared war with India over the status of Kashmir. The Fifth World Islamic Congress was held in 1962.) Until his death in 1974 the spiritual leader of the WMC was Haj Amin al-Husseini, The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.

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