http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/world/asia/india-kashmir-khurram-parvez-jkccs.html 2016-09-15 14:52:56 India Prevents Kashmiri Activist From Traveling to U.N. Meeting The activist, Khurram Parvez, was to submit a report to the United Nations Human Rights Council on the situation in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir. === NEW DELHI — An activist from the Indian-controlled portion of The activist, Khurram Parvez, of the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, planned to submit a “civil society stakeholder’s report” to the council on the situation in Kashmir, where the death of a commander for a separatist group in July has More than 70 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in the confrontations, and thousands of civilians and security forces have been injured. Mr. Parvez said he had already passed through security checks at the airport on Wednesday when “something popped up on the screen of the immigration officer’s computer.” “He said he had to consult someone and disappeared in a back room for the next 15 minutes,” said Mr. Parvez, who has since returned to Srinagar, the capital of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. A spokesman for Mr. Parvez said that after an hour and a half, the immigration official told him that he had instructions from an official in the Intelligence Bureau to bar him from traveling to Geneva. The official noted that there were no charges against him. The incident echoed a decision in January 2015 to The Ministry of Home Affairs said afterward that her visit was “prejudicial to the national interest” and would harm India’s image abroad. In March of that year, the Delhi High Court ruled in favor of Ms. Pillai’s petition against the ministry, ordering the government to expunge the “offload” notation in her passport. Mr. Parvez said on Thursday that he had filed inquiries with the Ministry of External Affairs and the Home Affairs Ministry, asking why he was barred from traveling.