Srinagar, July 2 -- The High Court of J&K and Ladakh has dismissed the petition of an elderly couple facing deportation.

The couple comes from a family of permanent residents and landholders of Kashmir but became the citizens of Pakistan after the 1947 partition.

The couple - Mohammad Khalil Qazi and Arifa Qazi - were born in Srinagar in 1945 and 1962 respectively. They are cousins, and got married in 1986 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

In 1988, they came back to Kashmir along with their new-born baby on a valid travel document. They have been living here on the basis of extended permits in the Baha-ud-din Sahab quarter of the city.

During the partition, Mohammad Khalil Qazi's father Ghulam Mohammad Qazi was doing business in Rawalpindi, (n...