Mirwaiz Umar Farooq drops ‘Hurriyat chairman’ title from X profile

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Kashmir chief cleric, on Friday (December 26, 2025) talked about he “had a Hobson’s selection” and made up our minds to put off the Hurriyat chairman title from his social media form out on X.

“For some time now, I used to be being pressed by the authorities to secure changes to my X (previously Twitter) form out as Hurriyat chairman, as all constituents of Hurriyat Convention, including the Awami Motion Committee that I head personal been banned beneath the UAPA, making Hurriyat a banned organisation, failing which they’ll rob down my form out,” the Mirwaiz talked about.

He talked about at a time when public predicament and avenues of dialog stand severely restricted, this platform remains among the very few manner accessible to me to achieve out to my people and fragment my views on our points with them, and the initiate air world. “Below such circumstances, it is a long way a Hobson’s selection I used to be left to secure,” he added.

The Mirwaiz used to be the most well-known chairman of separatist amalgam All Parties Hurriyat Convention formed in 1993. The amalgam compromised separatist political groups, merchants’ our bodies and civil society groups. The APHC termed Kashmir as a dispute and demanded implementation of United Countries resolutions on Kashmir.