Ex-militant’s son can’t join US firm as govt denies passport
SRINAGAR; 30, July 2013: The government has denied passport to an engineer, who was to join a software firm in the United States, stating that his father was an active member of the pro-freedom Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front at the beginning of militant struggle during nineties.
Mehraj-ul-Asrar Bhawani son of Bashir Ahmed from Dooru Shahabad Islamabad who presently resides in Burzulla area of Srinagar says that there are thousands of such cases in Kashmir where people particularly educated youth are being ‘denied passport on the grounds better known to everyone’.
“I completed B.Tech in Information Technology from NIT Hazratbal Srinagar. It was my good luck and hard work that I was selected in one of the top US multinational Software Company ‘Aricent’ as Software Engineer. I had applied for the passport in May 2012 but when I visited the CID for my clearance they said that passport would not be issued in my favour as my father was a member of JKLF from 1990 to 1999,” he says.
“I presented many applications to IG CID for my clearance but still my file isn't being cleared. I don't know why the government is starting projects like Udaan for the youth of Jammu and Kashmir while thousands of educated youth are being denied passports, depriving them from securing good job outside India,” Asrar says.
He says that he needs the passport to join the company. “All my pleas and requests are being turned down by authorities. I fail to understand if my father was affiliated with JKLF, why am I being punished,” Asrar says while making an appeal to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to look into the matter
Mehraj-ul-Asrar Bhawani son of Bashir Ahmed from Dooru Shahabad Islamabad who presently resides in Burzulla area of Srinagar says that there are thousands of such cases in Kashmir where people particularly educated youth are being ‘denied passport on the grounds better known to everyone’.
“I completed B.Tech in Information Technology from NIT Hazratbal Srinagar. It was my good luck and hard work that I was selected in one of the top US multinational Software Company ‘Aricent’ as Software Engineer. I had applied for the passport in May 2012 but when I visited the CID for my clearance they said that passport would not be issued in my favour as my father was a member of JKLF from 1990 to 1999,” he says.
“I presented many applications to IG CID for my clearance but still my file isn't being cleared. I don't know why the government is starting projects like Udaan for the youth of Jammu and Kashmir while thousands of educated youth are being denied passports, depriving them from securing good job outside India,” Asrar says.
He says that he needs the passport to join the company. “All my pleas and requests are being turned down by authorities. I fail to understand if my father was affiliated with JKLF, why am I being punished,” Asrar says while making an appeal to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to look into the matter
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