New Delhi: Stung by their anti-India activities and secessionist statements abroad,
the Centre has decided to get tough with Kashmiri separatist leaders with regard to
their foreign travel and it may even impound their passports.
Highly placed sources said on January 8 that the government has decided to reverse
its policy of being liberal in enabling the separatist elements to travel abroad and
participate in conferences and other meetings. Several of them undertake foreign
trips on ostensible medical grounds and use the opportunity to carryout vicious
anti-India campaigns, the sources said.
A dossier submitted to the Home Ministry names Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, Yaseen Malik and
Sheikh Abdul Aziz among the separatist leaders against whom action has been proposed
by way of either impounding their passport or refusal of permission to travel
abroad.
Citing the case of former Hurriyat Chairman Umer, the document accuses him of holding
meetings with expatriate pro-Pakistani Kashmiri groups, ISI operatives and other
anti-India elements and espousing the right of "self-determination" of Kashmiris.
It said that Mirwaiz had tried to influence the General Secretary of Organisation of
Islamic Countries (OIC) in New York to take "economic sanctions" against India for
its
"illegal occupation" of Kashmir.
PTI
