Srinagar: Scores of Pakistani wives of Kashmiri ex-militants on Friday held a protest demonstration in Srinagar demanding citizenship rights and travel documents from the state government.
They urged both India and Pakistan governments to intervene so that they can meet their families in Pakistan administered Kashmir.
The protesting wives had returned to Valley with their husbands after the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah announced rehabilitation programme for surrendered in 2010.
Zeba, one of the wife of ex-milltant said that she got married to Abdul Rashid Khan in 2003 in Pakistan . After the Chief minister of state Omar Abdullah announced the rehabilitation programme we returned to Kashmir in 2012.
“We are requesting the government to provide us proper travel documents so that we can visit our family members and relatives in Pakistan,” she added.
Via Kashmir Reader
