KL News Network
Srinagar
For 19th consecutive Friday today, congregational Friday prayers were not allowed in the historic 622-year-old Jamia Masjid Srinagar.
J&K Government sealed all roads leading to Jamia Masjid situated in Nowhatta and disallowed the mandatory Friday prayers today, once again.
Kashmir is shut for last more than four months since the killing of militant commander Burhan Wani on July 8.
Successive governments have put siege around the historic Masjid on Fridays during uprisings and anti-establishment protests.
Hurriyat Conference (m) media advisor, Adv Shahid Ul Islam, told Kashmir Life that Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was yet again stopped from leaving his Nigeen residence by a posse of police. He has been kept under house arrest.
While condemning the ban on mandatory congregational prayers in Jamia Masjid, he termed the government step “as interference in the religion”.
The ban on prayers in Jamia Masjid has already received wide spread condemnation from different quarters of the society.
