Tehran (IP) - Maulana Abbas Ansari, one of the great and prominent Shia scholars of Kashmir, passed away this morning after a long illness.

Iran PressAsia: He was a well-known personality and was formerly the president of the Hurriyat Conference (the largest Kashmiri independence movement).

Thousands of people participated in the funeral ceremony of Maulana Abbas Ansari, a prominent Shia scholar, in Srinagar Kashmir. The funeral prayers were offered at Zadibal in Srinagar and the body was laid to rest in Zadibal graveyard. 

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