Srinagar, April 18 (KNO): Scores of parents of Kashmiri students who were earlier airlifted and then put under quarantine at an army facility at Jaiselmer, Rajshtan, today staged a protest at Srinagar demanding immediate evacuation of their children.
Witnesses told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that dozens of parents of Kashmiri students, who have completed their quarantine at Jaisalmer, protested against what they called government’s “lackadaisical approach” towards evacuating their children.
“It’s been more than a month since 276 children who were studying in Iran were airlifted and then kept at an army facility at Jaisalmer, Rajasthan under quarantine. They have completed quarantine period and have also been tested negative, the certificates of being negative have already been issued to them and still they are in the army facility with no word as to when they would be airlifted to Srinagar,” said Shabir Hussain, a parent, whose daughter is at Jaisalmer.
Kaiser Ahmed, whose daughter is also stuck in Jaisalmer, was the part of protest as well. “We have been given wrong assurances time and again. Why can’t the government bring our children back,” he questioned. Another parent echoed similar concern. The policemen who were present at the spot detained the group of parents and later took them in preventive custody.
They were later released. After release, the group of parents met Divisional Commissioner P K Pole and sought intervention of the government and clarification whether the J&K government was going to evacuate the students. “The Divisional Commissioner told us that it wasn’t possible till lockdown is lifted completely,” said one of the parents—(KNO)