WASHINGTON: The United States has revoked the visa of Amanullah Khan, chairman of so called Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), the State Department announced.
The department spokesman Margaret Tutwiler said that the department revoked the visa on April 18 under section 221 of the immigration and naturalization act.
Tutwiler’s statement came in answer to a question by a correspondent who said that Khan was to hold a press conference at the National Press club on Friday.
Indian Embassy’s information counselor R. Dayakar expressed appreciation for the action taken by the state department.
India had asked for the expulsion of the leader of JKLF, fighting for Kashmir’s secessions from India, for his inflammatory statements against India.
The main complaint against Khan was that he had issued orders from American soil for the execution of three hostages, Kashmir University vice chancellor, his personal secretary and HMT general manager, who had been kidnaped by JKLF in Srinagar on April 6.
Amanullah Khan announced in New York on April 9 that the three men had been killed. The three hostages were executed the following day.
A report from UN said secretary general Javier Perez De Cuellar has assured Indian Ambassador C R Gharekhan that he would look into how Amanullah Khan was allowed to use the world body to make inflammatory remarks to incite violence in Kashmir.
Article extracted from this publication >> April 27, 1990
