Islamabad, July 18: Pakistan government has banned JKLF chief Amanullah Khan from travelling abroad and cancelled his passport, his outfit claimed today. "On July 17, he (Khan) was told by the passport office authorities that since the government of Pakistan had put his name on the exit control list (ECL), he could not get a passport. His current passport has also been cancelled," a Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) statement said here. The validity of Khan's passport was to expire tomorrow. As he expected an invitation to participate in the Kashmir conference to be held in Washington on July 24-25, Khan had applied for a new passport on July 16 by paying an urgent fee of Rs 4,000. Khan was told to collect the passport the next day but when he went to do so, he was informed that his name had been put on the ECL, the statement said.
Bureau Report