India's ban on IIOJK students going to Pakistan for higher education, widely criticised

By Mariam Siddiqui
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May 13, 2022
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The Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) in Jammu and Kashmir has expressed grave worry over an Indian advice prohibiting Kashmiri students from pursuing higher education abroad, calling it a deliberate ploy by the Indian government to keep Kashmiris out of school.

In a statement issued in Islamabad on Thursday, DFP acting chairman Mehmood Ahmed Saghar denounced the Indian higher education authorities' declaration as a scheme to keep Kashmiris underdeveloped and illiterate. He claimed that, after taking away students' right to seek education in Kashmir and within India, the BJP administration was now hell-bent on closing doors to Kashmiris seeking higher education in Pakistan, despite the fact that students from SAARC countries travel freely from one country to another.

According to him, the BJP administration is punishing Kashmiri students by refusing them the ability to visit Pakistan because it presents every Kashmiri visiting the nation, whether for education or to see relatives, as a threat. He claimed that Kashmiri Muslims were being persecuted for their unwavering support for the ongoing struggle for self-determination.

Saghar urged international bodies to take notice of the issue and pressure India to stop its inhumane tactics and persecution of Kashmiris in the occupied region.

Meanwhile, the DFP leader expressed his displeasure with a Delhi court's unilateral judicial proceedings against JKLF Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik, which he described as a one-sided trial that violated basic justice standards.