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All Parties Hurriyat Conference

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All Parties Hurriyat Conference
ChairpersonMirwaiz Umar Farooq (Mirwaiz faction)
Masarat Alam Bhat (Geelani faction; interim)[1]
FoundersMirwaiz Umar Farooq
Syed Ali Shah Geelani
Sheikh Abdul Aziz
Mohammad Abbas Ansari
Abdul Gani Lone
Yasin Malik
Abdul Gani Bhat
Ghulam Mohammad Bhat
Founded31 July 1993
Preceded byMuslim United Front[2][3]
HeadquartersSrinagar
IdeologyKashmiri separatism[4]
Self-determination[5]
Islamism[6][7][8]
Political positionBig tent[9][10]
ColorsGreen
Website
www.huriyatconference.com

The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) (formed March 10, 1993) is a political front formed as an alliance of 26 political, social and religious organizations in Kashmir. It was formed achieving the right of self-determination according to United Nations Security Council Resolution 47. "Hurriyat" in Kashmiri (as well as in Arabic from which the word is loaned, Urdu and Persian) means "liberty".[11][12][13] Tabish Bhat was elected its leader in January 2010.[14]

Objectives

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The primary objective of Hurriyat Conference is to have Islamic governance in Jammu & Kashmir and liberating the regions from India to Pakistan.

References

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  1. Bashaarat Masood (8 September 2021). "Masarat Alam succeeds Geelani as Hurriyat chairman". The Indian Express. Archived from the original on 4 February 2023. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
  2. Bose, Sumantra (2003), Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace, Harvard University Press, p. 48, ISBN 978-0-674-01173-1
  3. "Muslim United Front". Muslim United Front - Oxford Islamic Studies Online. The Oxford Dictionary of Islam. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 12 March 2017. An alliance of Islamic parties organized to contest the 1987 state elections in Indian-controlled Kashmir. The alliance won only three seats, allegedly due to massive electoral fraud. The group's poor showing in 1987 inspired a new phase of armed resistance to Indian rule in Kashmir that continues today.
  4. "All Parties Hurriyat Conference".
  5. Jeelani, Mehboob (2010-09-01), "How defiance made Syed Ali Geelani relevant in Kashmir", The Caravan
  6. PTI, Why India banned Jamaat-e-lslami and the 'Amir-e-Jihad' Geelani connection, Business Standard, 9 March 2019.
  7. Praveen Swami, The Sunset of Kashmir's Jihadist Patriarch, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, News18, 29 June 2020 (updated 1 September 2021).
  8. Jamal (2009), pp. 141–143: "Among top leaders of the organization [Jamaat-i-Islami] in 1989, only Syed Ali Shah Geelani was willing to publicly support armed jihad. ... A pro-militancy constituency secretly arranged for Syed Ali Shah Geelani to address the group [of leaders]. When negotiations stalled, Geelani appeared suddenly, made an impassioned speech and, according to accounts of the meeting, succeeded in pushing the group toward openly supporting the jihad [which ended with the creation of Hizbul Mujahideen]."
  9. Geelani floats new party, The Statesman, 8 August 2004. ProQuest 284218680
  10. insurgency, n, Oxford English Dictionary, retrieved 27 November 2019 Quote: "The quality or state of being insurgent; the tendency to rise in revolt; = insurgence n. = The action of rising against authority; a rising, revolt." (subscription required)
  11. Profile of All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC), Kashmiri Herald, Vol. 1, No. 12, May 2002.
  12. South Asian Intelligence Review on All Parties Hurriyat Conference.
  13. Hurriyat: A crowded house, a divided house - A brief history of the Hurriyat and its key players, The Indian Express, 23 May 2002.
  14. Kashmiri organisation felicitate Safi on his election Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, Associated Press of Pakistan, January 14, 2010.