IBN LIVE NEWS..... 26/11 mastermind offers scholarship to suspended Kashmiri students Islamabad/Srinagar: A day after a cornered Uttar Pradesh government withdrew sedition charges against 67 Kashmiri students for cheering for Pakistan during the India-Pakistan Asia Cup match, Pakistan has not lost an opportunity to comment on Indias affairs. Lashkar-e-Toiba founder and Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed, who was the 26/11 Mumbai attacks mastermind, has now said that it will give scholarship to the 67 Kashmiri students. Saeed has also slammed India saying that the move smacks of narrow-mindedness. We, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, have decided to give scholarship to all 67 students. We want them to study with freedom. If India has treated them in this manner, we will prove that Kashmiris and Pakistanis are one, Saeed said. The Pakistan Foreign Ministry too has said that the students are welcome to come study in Pakistan if they wish. In a statement made to Indian Express, Pakistans Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tasnim Aslam said, It was unfortunate that the students had been booked for sedition. If these Kashmiri students want to come and pursue their studies in Pakistan, our hearts and academic institutions are open to them. The charges against the students were dropped after the Home Ministry sought a report from the UP government on Thursday. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah also slammed the charges of sedition saying that treatment was harsh and unacceptable. He also met his UP counterpart Akhilesh Yadav asking him to intervene in the matter. The students against whom the charges were framed denied any wrongdoing. We have committed no crime. We were cheering for Pakistan because they were playing well at that time, said Ajaz, suspended student from the Swami Vivekanand Subharti University. We are labelled as terrorists. Do we have no career? We appeal to government to save our future, said another suspended student Muteeb. The Jammu and Kashmir government and the opposition had come together on Thursday to decry the action taken against the students in Meerut. Sedition charge against Kashmiri students is an unacceptably harsh punishment that will ruin their futures and will further alienate them, Omar tweeted. However, he maintained that the universitys move was important to control the situation but action against the state government was unwarranted. I believe the university did what it had to control the situation but this action by the UP government is uncalled for and should be reversed, he said. But in Kashmir and elsewhere, politics took over with the Bharatiya Janata Party leading protests and the People Democratic Party backing the students. It is better if everyone supports their own country, said BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi. They have been wronged. They should be taken back and cases against them withdrawn. This is height of intolerance, said PDP spokesperson Nayeem Akthar. The students have now said that they are scared to return to the campus and need assurances from the government.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 06:09:04 +0000
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