{"id":40074,"date":"2021-09-08T08:46:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T03:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/hardline-hurriyat-conference-elects-masrat-alam-as-chairman\/"},"modified":"2021-09-08T08:46:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T03:16:46","slug":"hardline-hurriyat-conference-elects-masrat-alam-as-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=40074","title":{"rendered":"Hardline Hurriyat Conference elects Masrat Alam as chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Srinagar, September 7 : <\/em><\/strong><em>Hardline Hurriyat Conference has elected incarcerated leader Masrat Alam as its chairman following the death of Syed Ali Shah Geelani last week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In a statement issued to media on Tuesday, the hardline faction of the Hurriyat said the people of Jammu and Kashmir look up to the amalgam\u2019s leadership with great expectations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Shabir Ahmad Shah and Ghulam Ahmad Gulzar were elected as vice-chairmen. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The amalgam said the appointments were temporary till elections are held according to the Hurriyat constitution.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Geelani, who died last week, was elected as the lifetime chairman of the amalgam, but he stepped down and dissociated from it last year. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He was avowedly a Pakistan supporter and had spearheaded the separatist movement in Jammu and Kashmir for over three decades. <\/em><strong><em>PTI<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, September 7 : Hardline Hurriyat Conference has elected incarcerated leader Masrat Alam as its chairman following the death of Syed Ali Shah Geelani last week. In a statement issued to media on Tuesday, the hardline faction of the Hurriyat said the people of Jammu and Kashmir look up to the amalgam\u2019s leadership with great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}