Former Hurriyat Conference chairman Maulana Abbas Ansari dies at 86

Srinagar, October 25 Former chairman of the Hurriyat Conference and influential Shia leader Maulana Abbas Ansari died here on Tuesday. He was 86. “Maulana (Ansari) breathed his last at his Nawakadal residence in the old city on Tuesday morning,” a...

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Updated At : 01:17 AM Oct 26, 2022 IST

Srinagar, October 25

Former chairman of the Hurriyat Conference and influential Shia leader Maulana Abbas Ansari died here on Tuesday. He was 86.

“Maulana (Ansari) breathed his last at his Nawakadal residence in the old city on Tuesday morning,” a relative of the deceased leader said.

He said Ansari was not keeping well for the past couple of months and was hospitalised for some time in September.

Ansari was the last chairman of the undivided Hurriyat Conference which split into two factions soon after his election as the head of the separatist amalgam in 2003.

He had stepped aside from active politics and his son Masroor had replaced him in Hurriyat as representative of Ittehadul Muslimeen party.

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