Srinagar, May 27 -- For the eighth year in a row, the J&K administration did not allow congregational Eid-ul-Adha prayers at the historic Eidgah ground and Jamia Masjid in Srinagar's old city on Wednesday, and placed Kashmir's chief cleric, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, under house arrest.
Mirwaiz described the restrictions as "a systematic assault on our religious identity, dignity and fundamental rights."In a post on X, the Mirwaiz said that for the eighth consecutive year, Kashmiri Muslims were denied the right to offer Eid prayers at the historic Eidgah and Jamia Masjid, while he himself was placed under house arrest.
"On the revered and celebratory occasion of Eid , Muslims of Kashmir are greeted with barricades, restrictions, locked gates an...