Just because her uncle was '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.
Fifteen-year-old Sufaira Jan, who stays in an orphanage in Budgam, was to have left for the US in the first week of August as she won a one-year scholarship under the India-US Youth Exchange Study programme, NDTV reports.
She cleared four exams and an interview at the US embassy in Delhi in March to get an invitation from America, becoming an inspiration for the entire orphanage.
But reality hit hard when she applied for a passport in April. The Jammu and Kashmir state government of India did not give her a clearance because, according to records of the state's Criminal Investigation Department, her uncle had been a militant who surrendered in 1995.
"The government doesn't understand that if my uncle was a militant in the past, and is now surrendered and lives a normal life, what is my fault? I am not a militant," Sufaira said.
Though she should have been on her way to the US by now, Sufaira still has her fingers crossed.