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Shares0 Emotional scenes as family members, relatives have last glimpse of 77-year-old separatist leader; few people allowed to attend funeral prayers before dawn, heavy security deployment to prevent large gathering Kupwara, May 06 : Amid tight security arrangements, prominent separatist leader and chairman of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai was laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard in Tekipora, Lolab in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district before dawn on Thursday. Officials told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the body of veteran separatist leader, who was in deten...

Quietly, Sehraie Lowered In His Tekipora Grave At 4 AM Hilal Shah KUPWARA: Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai was laid to rest at the family’s ancestral Tekipora graveyard in Lolab, early Thursday morning. His posthumous ride from Jammu to Tekipora, the family said cost them Rs 22,000 that a private ambulance charged. Authorities had put elaborate restrictions on the entry of people from outside and even preventing residents from joining the funeral. His coffin reached the village at around 4 am. “Emotional scenes were witnessed as Sehrai’s son could be seen bidding adieu to his father after...

Top Story May 7, 2021 ISLAMABAD: People raised high-pitched pro-freedom, pro-Pakistan and anti-India slogans during the funeral of senior leader of All Parties Hurriyat Conference and the Chairman of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. According to the Kashmir Media Service, a video showed that during the funeral of Sehrai in his ancestral village Tekipora in Lolab area of Kupwara under tight military siege, people shouted slogans in favour of the senior Kashmiri leader as well as for freedom from Indian occupation, Is...

Jailed Since July 2020, Hurriyat Leader Ashraf Sehrai Dies in Preventive Custody Three petitions that his family had filed at the J&K high court, seeking better treatment for him, did not come up for hearing. Ashraf Sehrai. Photo: Author provided. Rights14 hours ago Srinagar: Detained since July 2020, Kashmiri separatist leader and Tehreek-e-Hurriyat chairman Muhammad Ashraf Khan Sehrai passed away at a government hospital in Jammu on Wednesday, May 5. He was 78. Popular as ‘Sehrai’, the leader was shifted to the hospital after he complained of breathlessness in Udhampur jail, where he ha...

Comments Jailed Hurriyat leader Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai died on Wednesday, 5 May 2021, due to multiple illnesses, at the Government Medical College, Jammu. He was serving jail-time at the Jammu District Jail under the Public Safety Act (PSA), which allows preventive detention of individuals for up to two years without trial. The death of the pro-Pakistan separatist leader in Kashmir is likely to raise fresh tensions in the Kashmir Valley, and also test the reaffirmation of the 2003 ceasefire deal between India and Pakistan, that saw both sparring countries dialling down border skirmishes along...