{"id":2017,"date":"2014-05-02T14:42:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T14:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir-today.net\/?p=2017"},"modified":"2014-05-02T14:42:30","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T14:42:30","slug":"geelanis-passport-requirements-not-complete-passport-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=2017","title":{"rendered":"Geelani\u2019s passport requirements not complete: Passport Officer \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Authorities forcing for cancellation of Geelani\u2019s Pakistan visit: Hurriyat (G)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Srinagar:\u00a0<\/strong>As the\u00a0Passport Officer Srinagar\u00a0on Friday\u00a0said that the requirements for issuance of Passport in favour of Syed Ali Geelani are incomplete, Hurriyat Conference (G) accused the authorities for forcing its chairman to cancel his Pakistan visit.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to KNS, Firdous Iqbal Passport Officer Srinagar said: \u201cWe were approached by his (Geelani) \u00a0\u00a0family today as well but since the requirements for issuance of his passport are incomplete we cannot help in this regard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Naseem Geelani, son of Syed Ali Geelani who had approached the passport office today in the morning informed KNS that he was told that some requirements which are a must before issuing\u00a0 a passport are not complete. \u201cIt means the authorities are not in a mood to issue Geelani sahib this vital travel document. This way the authorities are simply forcing him to cancel his scheduled visit to Pakistan,\u201d Naseem told KNS on phone.<\/p>\n<p>Geelani was invited by Kashmir American Council (KAC) Washington DC, to address a seminar titled \u201cIs Kashmir, an Issue of election or Self determination\u201d to be held on May 5 2014 at Islamabad in Pakistan. The Hurriyat (G) chairman had shown willingness to participate in the event provided he is issued the vital travel documents.<\/p>\n<p>Geelani has thanked KAC for inviting him to participate in the seminar. Reports maintained that the seminar is aimed to highlight the Kashmir issue in the back drop of elections being held in Kashmir and political changes in the sub-continent. It is also aimed to discuss and debate the various peaceful options to strengthen the struggle for right to self-determination of Kashmiri people. All expenses including boarding and lodging including business class tickets would be provided to foreign delegates attending the conference in Pakistan.\u00a0(KNS)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities forcing for cancellation of Geelani\u2019s Pakistan visit: Hurriyat (G) Srinagar:\u00a0As the\u00a0Passport Officer Srinagar\u00a0on Friday\u00a0said that the requirements for issuance of Passport in favour of Syed Ali Geelani are incomplete, Hurriyat Conference (G) accused the authorities for forcing its chairman to cancel his Pakistan visit. Talking to KNS, Firdous Iqbal Passport Officer Srinagar said: \u201cWe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}