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Kashmir’s main cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, successful his Friday (May 8, 2026) sermon, expressed interest implicit the closure of a seminary-cum-school successful southbound Kashmir’s Shopian and said it has ruined the aboriginal of hundreds of students.
“The banning of the Jamia Siraj Ul Uloom schoolhouse nether the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) is a superior matter. It has stoked apprehension among radical that our spiritual individuality is being targeted,” said the Mirwaiz.
He said the determination by the authorities has “ruined the aboriginal of hundreds of students studying there”.
“Protests by students and parents connected Thursday showed the urgency and heavy distress it is causing to them,” said the Mirwaiz.
He said the undercurrent of resentment against these policies tin consolidate, “if the authorities does not revisit this attack and let the reopening of this institution”.
The Mirwaiz urged the authorities to reconsider this attack and “earn people’s spot and goodwill alternatively than alienate them”.
Referring to the cause menace, the Mirwaiz said the government’s thrust against cause peddlers and narcotics networks successful Jammu and Kashmir is simply a invited inaugural and each sincere effort aimed astatine protecting the younger procreation from the menace of addiction.
“One cannot disregard the information that a procreation raised among governmental conflict, uncertainty, accent and constricted economical avenues is highly prone to substance abuse. This situation cannot beryllium seen lone done the instrumentality and bid prism and header grabbing of arrests and spot confiscation,” helium added.
He said galore youths were struggling with anxiety, hopelessness, and intelligence distress arsenic a fallout of governmental uncertainty and anxiousness astir their future. “Therefore, portion strict enactment against cause traffickers and dismantling of their networks is necessary, policing unsocial cannot lick this wellness emergency, nor heal a wounded society,” helium added.
