Explanation:

Mirwaiz Mohammad Umar Farooq (born 23 March 1973) is the Mirwaiz of Kashmir and a Kashmiri separatist leader. He is the chairman of the Awami Action Committee, one of the two key factions of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference. He became the 14th Mirwaiz (Kashmiri term for traditional preacher of Muslims in Kashmir) on 30 May 1990. At the age of 17, following the assassination of his father by unknown gunmen, Mirwaiz Maulvi Farooq, the leader of Awami Action Committee, Farooq united 23 Kashmiri pro-freedom organizations into the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC).