Srinagar, Nov. 3 -- The continued house detention of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq for the third consecutive day has forced the Muttahida Majlis-e-Ulama (MMU) to postpone its maiden district-level Ulema meeting scheduled for Wednesday in Bandipora, amid uncertainty over his participation.
In a statement, the MMU said the meeting, scheduled at Darul Uloom Raheemiyah, Bandipora, was being organised as a follow-up to the one-day Ulema conference convened by the religious body in Srinagar on September 15, which was attended by over 70 prominent religious scholars representing different schools of thought and regions of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
The MMU said September conference deliberated on a range of pressing societal and environmental concerns,...