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Geelani gets passport for medical treatment
India has provided a passport to a hardline Kashmiri separatist to enable him to travel abroad for cancer treatment, officials said on Thursday. We have handed over Syed Ali Geelanis passport to his son, an official at federal passport office told AFP in Kashmiri summer capital Srinagar.The vehemently anti-India Geelani has not been allowed to leave the country since an insurgency began in Indian-held Kashmir in 1989, except in 2005 when he was permitted to visit Saudi Arabia to attend the hajj. Geelani, 72, heads the hardline faction of the regions main separatist alliance, the Hurriyat Conference, which supports union with Pakistan. The ailing leader had a kidney removed two years ago after doctors found cancer and now the disease has been detected in his second kidney. Posted by: Fred 2007-03-09 |
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