Mirwaiz Umar re-elected as APHC Chief

SRINAGAR—Awami Action Committee (AAC) chief Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has been re-elected as the chairman of the moderate faction of the Hurriyat Conference for another term of two years. The decision was taken at an extra-ordinary meeting of the Hurriyat Conference at its Raj Bagh headquarters here.
The name of Mirwaiz Farooq was proposed by former Hurriyat Chairman Prof Abdul Ghani Bhat and seconded by all the other Executive Committee members. After the Hurriyat Executive Committee cleared the name, the General Council confirmed the decision. The Mirwaiz, the head priest of Kashmir, was the founder Chairman of the Hurriyat Conference when formed on December 27, 1993 and held the position for two consecutive terms of two years each till 1996 and then assumed the post again in 2000 and 2004.
Born on March 23, 1973 at their ancestral house in Rajouri Kadal in the downtown city, Mirwaiz did his matriculation from the prestigious Burn Hall School in 1990 and took over the reigns of the AAC after his father Mirwaiz Moulvi Muhammad Farooq was assassinated on May 21, 1990.—Agencies