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Hurriyat leader awaits govt nod to attend son's wedding

Hurriyat Confence leader Prof Abdul Ghani Lone, who has been camping in the capital for the past three days for permission to attend his son's wedding in Pakistan, has approached the National Human Rights Commission for help.

Prof Lone's son, Sajjad, is to wed Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Amanullah Khan's daughter Asma in Pakistan on November 20.

While Prof Lone's family has left for Pakistan, he is awaiting clearance from the External Affairs Ministry.

The Hurriyat leader told UNI that he approached the NHRC on Monday but has not got any response so far.

He said he had put in an application at the Regional Passport Office in Srinagar "a long time back" intimating them about his son's wedding. He received a reply on September 19 saying that the application had been forwarded to the Ministry of External Affairs.

Along with Prof Lone five other senior Hurriyat leaders have applied for passports to attend the wedding. They include Mirwaiz Omar Farooq, Yaseen Malik, Syed Ali Shah Gilani, Prof Abdul Ghani Bhat and Sheikh Abdul Aziz.

UNI

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