Srinagar, February 19 (KNO) : Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Chairman, Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai Tuesday strongly condemned the sedition charges against four Kashmiri female students studying at NIMS Jaipur and in other institutions. Sehrai in a statement issued to KNO said, “No corner of India is safe for Kashmiris.”
Expressing deep concern and anguish over the arrests and thrashing Kashmiri student, Sehrai said, “Kashmiris are being harassed everywhere in all possible ways. These actions reflect the communal and prejudiced thinking and mindset which has no moral justification. If the harassment of Kashmiri students does not stop, it will have a strong reaction in Kashmir.”
Criticizing the J&K administration for failing to stop continued attacks and harassment of Kashmiri students studying outside Jammu and Kashmir, Sehrai said J&K state authorities have done only lip-service so far in this regard.
“Such vindictive and hatred politics for electoral gains played by of the ruling dispensation is shameful. These fictitious charges should immediately be withdrawn against the students which will ruin the lives and careers of these Kashmiri students,” he added.
Sehrai said Kashmiri students have been targeted by extremist groups continuously at various educational institutions across India which forced many Kashmiri students had to leave their studies midway. “Kashmiris have a history of being non-communal, humane and harmonious and we as a nation have always protected this humanity and harmony,” he said.
Sehrai further said that “one the one hand worst kind of atrocities are being unleashed on the people of Kashmir and on other the carrier of Kashmiri students outside the state is being ruined on one pretext or the other and pushed them to the wall.”(KNO)