Geelani is the second separatist leader invited by the OIC for the meetings scheduled to be held during the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN Headquarters on September 19-22.
OIC Director General of Cabinet Dr Yusuf Al-Othaimeen extended separate invitations to Geelani and chairman of moderate Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq to attend the meetings in New York as invitee.
Geelani and Mirwaiz along with JKLF chairman Mohammad Yaseen Malik are spearheading the ongoing agitation in the valley which has claimed the lives of 75 people and rendered thousands of others injured over the past two months.
While Mirwaiz and Malik are arrested, Geelani continues to remain under house arrest at his Hyderpora residence here.
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