{"id":4355,"date":"2014-07-04T15:07:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T15:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir-today.net\/?p=4355"},"modified":"2014-07-04T15:07:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T15:07:34","slug":"first-friday-ramadhan-azan-prayers-jamia-masjid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=4355","title":{"rendered":"First\u00a0Friday\u00a0of Ramadhan: No Azan, Prayers in Jamia Masjid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Srinagar:\u00a0<\/strong>Despite being the first\u00a0<span>Friday<\/span>\u00a0of the ongoing month of Ramadhan, no congregation prayers were offered at Kashmir\u2019s historic Jamia Masjid in old city. According to the KNS correspondent, authorities since\u00a0<span>Thursday<\/span>\u00a0evening placed Kashmir\u2019s chief religious cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq under house arrest who was supposed to deliver\u00a0<span>Friday<\/span>\u00a0sermon in the grand mosque.<\/p>\n<p>Reports informed that in view of the Prime Minister Narendera Modi\u2019s visit to valley and the strike call issued by the separatist leadership here, curfew and restrictions, on first\u00a0<span>Friday<\/span>\u00a0of Ramadhan, were imposed in old city with the roads wearing deserted look. No\u00a0<span>Friday<\/span>\u00a0congregation prayers were allowed in Jamia Masjid.<\/p>\n<p>Police also have placed Masjid\u2019s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq under house detention. Strict curfew has been imposed in various places in and outside the Srinagar in view of the Modi\u2019s first visit to Kashmir. Meanwhile, various pro-freedom leaders including Syed Ali Shah Geelani and others have been placed under arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar:\u00a0Despite being the first\u00a0Friday\u00a0of the ongoing month of Ramadhan, no congregation prayers were offered at Kashmir\u2019s historic Jamia Masjid in old city. According to the KNS correspondent, authorities since\u00a0Thursday\u00a0evening placed Kashmir\u2019s chief religious cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq under house arrest who was supposed to deliver\u00a0Friday\u00a0sermon in the grand mosque. Reports informed that in view of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4355","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\/4355","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=4355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}