India lets Kashmir leader travel

Indian officials say a prominent Kashmiri separatist leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, will be allowed to travel abroad for medical treatment.

Mr Geelani, who is in his seventies, is suffering from renal cancer.

An official in Indian-administered Kashmir said Mr Geelani, whose Indian passport was impounded in 1981, would be given a new one.

But he did not say whether the separatist leader's wife and son would be allowed to accompany him.