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| Geelani denied visa to the US |
| 2007-03-28 |
| The Kashmiri separatist leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who underwent a surgery in Mumbai, has been officially denied a visa to the United States. His family said they were called to the US consulate in Mumbai where they were conveyed the decision of the US State Department to bar Geelani, who is suffering from cancer in the kidney, from travelling to America. Geelani, who is also the Chairman of the breakaway Hurriyat Conference, had approached the US for a visa to undergo treatment using laser therapy. When contacted, a US Embassy spokesperson confirmed that Geelani’s request for visa was turned down. Asked on what grounds his visa request was denied, the spokesperson said that under US laws, information about visa application was confidential but “Geelani has consistently failed to renounce violence as means of achieving his political goal in Kashmir.” “US supports India and Pakistan’s ongoing discussions on how to resolve important bilateral issues including the question of Kashmir,” the spokesperson said. “Normal relations and increase in trade and people-to-people ties will benefit both countries and the region,” the spokesperson added, stressing that the steps taken by both countries following the 2005 earthquake in Kashmir were particularly encouraging. Geelani was operated at the Tata Memorial Hospital on Monday and the doctors successfully removed the malignant tumour from his only surviving kidney. He was admitted to the hospital on March 21. Geelani is 77 years old and had one kidney removed in 2003. His remaining kidney had been detected with cancer earlier this month by doctors at the Apollo hospital in New Delhi. |
| Posted by:John Frum |
| #3 Must suck to not believe in modern medicine and preach that shit day in and out to your congregation of sheeple; until you need it, right dickhead??? |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2007-03-28 14:26 |
| #2 Scumbag's gonna die in Pakland. It's a good place for it. Glad someone had the good sense and balls to tell this muzzy jerk that he wasn't welcome. |
| Posted by: Mac 2007-03-28 09:33 |
| #1 Awwww...too bad. Inshallah, Syed. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-03-28 09:32 |