KL Desk
Srinagar
The External Affairs ministry says it would impound the passport of Kashmir’s moderate separatist leader Yasin Malik, who shared the dais with Hafiz Saeed in Pakistan, if it receives a request.
Ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said the passport was given to Malik, chief of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), after getting a “no objection” from other Indian ministries and agencies.
“When violation (of provisions of passport) is indicated… when it is brought to our notice, we will act,” he said, adding that the government would act with Malik “as fit of a citizen of India”.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has demanded that Malik’s passport be revoked for sharing the dais with Hafiz Saeed at a rally held to protest the execution of parliament attack convict Afzal Guru in Islamabad on Saturday.
