Kashmiri girl gets US scholarship, denied passport because her uncle was a militant
She was offered a scholarship by the US, but orphaned Kashmiri teenager Sufaira has been denied a passport by her own country - just because her uncle was a militant even before she was born. 15-year-old Sufaira Jan, who stays in an orphanage in Budgam, was to have left for the US in the first week of August, after winning a one-year scholarship under the India-US Youth Exchange Study programme.
