Wednesday 13th May, 2026
Srinagar, Jun 20: Chairman of Hardline Hurriyat Conference (HC) Syed Ali Shah Geelani has been invited to “Urdu Book Fair” in Kashmir University on Friday.
A spokesman of the HC said that an invitation was received on Thursday from the students of the KU, one of the organisors of the fair.
The invitation letter said “You must know that an Urdu book fair has been organized in the KU and people from all walks of life are coming to the venue.
Of all the causes you have championed for the people of Jammu and Kashmir you have been campaigning for the Urdu language.
Your contribution to the urdu literature is unmatched be it your Wular Kinaray, a treasure of history, politics, and resistance or your treatise on Allama Iqbal.
It will be honor for us, students and scholars of KU that we be your host.
We invite you to deliver a talk on ‘Is there a conspiracy against Urdu? and why it is important to read it’ outside Kashmir University’s Allama Iqbal Library on June 21 at 1100 hrs.
Since it is the high time that you visit the varsity and share your valuable thoughts with the new generation, so that they are exposed to higher realities of Knowledge”, the letter said.
He said Mr Geelani has accepted the invitation and will attend the fair tomorrow.