The External Affairs ministry has said that there is no direction from the home ministry on revoking JKLF leader Yasin Malik's passport. The MEA said the decision to revoke Malik's passport is a quasi-judicial process and has to therefore stand up for scrutiny.

Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik's decision to share the stage with 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed in Islamabad to mourn the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru has got the government in a tizzy. The government is now weighing the option of revoking his passport on grounds of national security.

The Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front leader will be questioned by security agencies as soon as he returns home to explain his hobnobbing with India's most-wanted terror fugitive, almost giving Saeed legitimacy as a champion of the Kashmiri cause.