Mirwaiz among 500 most influential Muslim personalities.

SRINAGAR -- In occupied Kashmir, the Chairman of Hurriyat forum, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has, for the fifth consecutive year, been chosen among the 500 most influential Muslim personalities across the globe by Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre (RISISC), Jordan, and one among the five top in South Asia. The RISISC-Jordan's annual report for year 2019 tilted 'The Muslim 500? Umar Farooq inherited the title of the 14th Mirwaiz, (traditional preacher of Muslims in Kashmir) in 1990 after the martyrdom of his father. At the young age of twenty, he became the chairman and founder of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, a grassroots coalition of pro-freedom parties in J and K.

He has raised the Kashmir problem at the United Nations...