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Ready to study in Pakistan if India allows, say ousted students
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Thursday, 6 March 2014
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Srinagar: Kashmir students, who were
‘thrown out of an Indian varsity for cheering Pakistan during a cricket match
with arch rivals India on Sunday and were subsequently booked for
sedition, Wednesday said they were ‘ready to study in Pakistan if
Indian government allowed them’.
Pakistan government Thursday offered admissions
to Kashmir student who were ‘thrown out’ and booked for sedition after an Indian
varsity filed a complaint against them over cheering for Pakistan when they
beat India in a narrowly cricket encounter during Asia Cup match.
"Our hearts and educational institutions are open
for all Kashmir students who were suspended and charged with sedition for
celebrating Pakistan’s victory," said spokesperson of Foreign Office
Pakistan.
Reacting to Islamabad's offer, the suspended students
said: if authorities allow us, we are ready to go to Pakistan for studies.
One among the 67 ousted students, Musadiq, said: "We will feel
secure in Pakistan rather than India after the recent incident. It is the
matter of our future and if our future will be secure in Pakistan we are ready
to go."
The student said that the Indian university authorities
in Uttar Pradesh behaved very rudely with them.
He told GNS: "Now that university has filed sedition
case against us and crossed all the limits, it is impossible for us to go back
to the university." He added: "If the varsity returns us our
certificates, we will leave the institute."
A suspended B tech student, who wished not to be named,
said that if authorities think we are not safe in outside institutes, let them
allow us to go to Pakistan. "It is clear that we are not secure in Indian
institutes, and if authorities are unable to provide us security, then we are
ready to go to Pakistan for studying."
He added: "We are students but we were treated like
criminals and murderers by varsity authorities."
The student said that the varsity management's role is
disgusting. "They instead of listening to us threw us out of the
university. It was the matter between students but varsity gave it another
colour."
The students questioned the varsity asking: "On what
basis university suspended us?" They added: "Now, after suspending us
they want apology. They should have done this at the time when they forced us
to leave."
The students appealed Jammu and Kashmir government to
intervene in the matter in order to secure their future.
The trouble started on Sunday when Pakistan defeated
India in one of the league matches. Kashmir students at the varsity in Meerut
had cheered for Pakistan which angered the Indian students and they ‘harassed
and allegedly thrashed’ few Kashmir students.
Next day, the varsity authorities, according to Kashmir
students, forced them to leave the varsity with the help of police. The
students have been suspended for unknown time.
The university claims some Kashmir students celebrated
Pakistan's victory and raised slogans in the community hall of the hostel,
which led to a clash with other students and escalated into stone-throwing.
The university suspended all 67 Kashmir students of one
hostel block and asked them to leave, but no action was taken against the other
group. Around 200 Kashmir students are taking engineering and law courses in
the university. Ousted Kashmir students, however, maintain that they were
cornered by the Indian students and were ‘thrown’ out during the early dawn
hours on Monday.
University officials claim the students had committed an
‘anti-national act’ and also vandalised hostel property. (GNS)
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