Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Nov 25: Hardline Hurriyat Conference today appointed Syed Ali Shah Geelani as its life time chairman and senior separatist leader, Shabir Ahmad Shah, as secretary general of the amalgam.
A spokesman of the amalgam said an important Advisory Council meeting (Majlis-e-Shura) of the conglomerate was held at Hyderpora under the charmanship of its incumbent chairman Geelani.
“The meeting was attended by the heads or representatives of Democratic Freedom Party, People’s League, Kashmir Freedom Party, Mass Movement, Anjuman Share-i-Shia, Jammu Kashmir Employees Movement, National Front, Tehreek-e-Khawateen Kashmir, Insaf Party, Democratic Political Movement, People’s Political League, People’s Freedom League, Tehreek-e-Wahadat-i-Islami, Tehreek-e-Hurriyat, Tehreek-e-Mazahamat, Muslim League, Kashmir Freedom Front and Islamic Political Party,” he said.
The spokesman said the meeting participants thoroughly discussed the prevailing political situations in Kashmir and Hurriyat also made some vital changes in the organizational structure under Article 20 of the Hurriyat constitution and in this regard different committees were constituted.
“Geelani constituted different committees and cells according to which Shabir Ahmad Shah will be Secretary General, while as Ghulam Nabi Sumji and Masrat Alam Bhat were appointed as deputies to Shah,” he informed.
He said the Shabir Ahmad Shah, Agha Hassan Al-Mousvi Al-Safvi, Ghulam Nabi Sumji, Masrat Alam Bhat, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Altaf Ahmad Shah and Altaf Ahmad Shah have been nominated as the members of the Committee for political and social affairs.
Agha Hassan Al-Mousvi Al-Safvi, an influential Shi’a cleric, was appointed as the provincial president for Ladakh and Kargil while as Nayeem Ahmad Khan was appointed as president for Jammu Province and Shahid Saleem has been appointed as his deputy, he said.
In the Organizing Committee, Altaf Ahmad Shah, Geelani’s son-in-law, has been appointed as chief organizer and Mohammad Shafi Lone as his deputy. “Zamrooda Habib was appointed as the president of the Human Rights committee while as Mohammad Yousuf Naqash, Bilal Ahmad Siddiqi, Muhatarmah Fareeda Bahanji and Muhatarmah Yasmeen Raja were nominated as the members of the committee. In the committee for Information and Communication (Media Cell) Ayaz Akbar has been appointed as spokesman while as Ghulam Ahmad Gulzar and Hakeem Abdul Rasheed were nominated as deputies for this committee. Mohammad Shafi Reshi has been appointed as head of the Legal Committee (Legal Cell) while as Bashir Ahmad Andrabi, Mohammad Yaseen Attaai and Devender Singh Bhail were appointed as members of the committee. Ghulam Mohammad Khan Sopori was nominated as the head of the committee for public contacts while as Nisar Hussain Rather has been named as his deputy,” the spokesman of the faction said.
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