Abstract
On May 7, 1965, Akbar Jehan and the Sheikh returned to India after having performed Haj, the obligatory pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia. On their arrival they were greeted with an arrest warrant under the Defense of India Rules, banished from Jammu and Kashmir, and exiled to Kodaikanal in South India. Ironically, the seemingly interminable incarceration of the Sheikh by the government of India had allayed the hostility of the Pakistani establishment toward him. The Pakistani Foreign Minister in 1965, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, took it upon himself to extol the virtues and services of the Sheikh at the United Nations General Assembly, with the son of Akbar Jehan and the Sheikh, Tariq Abdullah, in tow.
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© 2014 Nyla Ali Khan
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Khan, N.A. (2014). Banishment and Trauma. In: The Life of a Kashmiri Woman: Dialectic of Resistance and Accommodation. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137463296_6
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