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Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Kashmir main cleric, connected Friday (December 26, 2025) said helium “had a Hobson’s choice” and decided to region the Hurriyat president rubric from his societal media grip connected X.
“For immoderate clip now, I was being pressed by the authorities to marque changes to my X (formerly Twitter) grip arsenic Hurriyat chairman, arsenic each constituents of Hurriyat Conference, including the Awami Action Committee that I caput person been banned nether the UAPA, making Hurriyat a banned organisation, failing which they volition instrumentality down my handle,” the Mirwaiz said.
He said astatine a clip erstwhile nationalist abstraction and avenues of connection basal severely restricted, this level remains among the precise fewer means disposable to maine to scope retired to my radical and stock my views connected our issues with them, and the extracurricular world. “Under specified circumstances, it is simply a Hobson’s prime I was near to make,” helium added.
The Mirwaiz was the archetypal president of separatist amalgam All Parties Hurriyat Conference formed successful 1993. The amalgam compromised separatist governmental groups, traders’ bodies and civilian nine groups. The APHC termed Kashmir arsenic a quality and demanded implementation of United Nations resolutions connected Kashmir.
