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Abbas Ansari
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Kashmir: Former Hurriyat chairman Abbas Ansari passes away

| @indiablooms | Oct 25, 2022, at 06:41 pm

Srinagar/UNI: Former Hurriyat chairman and a prominent Islamic scholar of Kashmir Molana Abbas Ansari passed away after a prolonged illness at his residence here Tuesday, family sources said.

They said Ansari would be laid to rest this afternoon.

Ansari was a moderate separatist voice and was for peaceful settlement of Kashmir issue.

In 2004, he led the five member delegation of All Parties Hurriyat Conference who held a first-ever meeting with the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Ansari was the last surviving politician from the Plebiscite Front era and was a champion of Shia Suni unity.

In 1962, Ansari founded Ittehadul Muslimeen.

He also served as convenor of the Muslim United Front (MUF)- a coalition of political parties that challenged the National Conference in the 1987 assembly polls.

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