For the third consecutive Friday, prayers at Kashmir s grand mosque were not allowed and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was placed under house arrest due to concerns of protests over the Gaza bombings. The situation in Jammu and Kashmir is described as a fragile normalcy.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was supposed to deliver sermon in connection with the Urs of Hazrat Peeran-e-Peer Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani and pay homage to the saint and scholar of Islam