[Reader-list] China issues visa on passport of former J&K Univ VC

[Aditya Raj Kaul]

*China issues visa on passport of former J&K Univ VC*

STAFF WRITER 17:58 HRS IST

* New Delhi, Dec 1 (PTI)* After raising India's hackles by issuing visa in a
separate sheet of paper to several residents of Jammu and Kashmir, China
issued a visa stamped on passport to former Jammu University Vice Chancellor
Amitabh Mattoo, a domicile of the state, who visited the neghbouring
country.

Mattoo, who had applied for a visa in the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi to
attened an international conference on nuclear disarmament in China last
month, had been given a regular stamped visa in his passport facilitating
his easy travel, government sources said today.

The noted Kashmiri Pandit academician was born in Jammu and Kashmir.

On several occasions in recent past, the China Embassy had given visas to
residents of Jammu and Kashmir on separate sheets of paper instead of
passport, inviting a sharp reaction from Indian government.