Srinagar (NVI): National Conference leader and former lawmaker Altaf Ahmed Kaloo today said that he was stopped at the immigration counter at New Delhi Airport, “detained” and barred from travelling to Dubai.
“I was barred to board a Dubai bound airplane. I was scheduled to visit Dubai to attend a family function but I was stopped and detained for more than four hours,” Kaloo said.
Kaloo, who represents South Kashmir’s Pahalgam constituency said he was informed that politicians from Jammu and Kashmir are barred from travelling outside the country.
They told me that they have a list of 38 politicians from Jammu and Kashmir, who won’t be allowed to travel outside the country.
“I was not only stopped from travelling to Dubai but treated like a criminal for more than four hours. It was only after the intervention of Kashmir police officers that I was released and allowed to travel back to Kashmir,” he said.
Kaloo was among the several Kashmiri politicians who were detained after the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir in August last year.
-ARK
