New Delhi: In a major diplomatic snub to India China has been issuing visas to Kashmiris on a separate piece of paper instead of stamping it on the passport.
Chinese authorities have been issuing visas to Kashmiris visiting their country on a separate piece of paper and stapling it on to the passport.
China has so far been issuing stapled visas for Indians from Arunachal Pradesh, which it considers as part of its own country.
The move is not just considered a diplomatic snub to India but has also frustrated the Kashmiris who are caught in the middle.
Sources have told CNN-IBN that travellers have already been rejected by airport's immigration authorities who did not consider the stapled visas as genuine.
They were rejected by immigration authorities even after the travellers returned with letters from Chinese Embassy which stated that the visas were original.
The Kashmiri travellers then approached the External Affairs Ministry in New Delhi and brought the matter to the notice of the Union Government.
An upset New Delhi has taken up the matter with the Chinese authorities.
"There should be no discrimination against Indian visa applicants on grounds of their domicile and ethnicity. We have conveyed out concern to China," a Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson said.
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