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| Pak using students as war weapons | | | One of the militants killed in a gunfight with security forces at Sumlar forests in North Kashmir’s Bandipora district had gone to Pakistan on a student visa, but he returned along with arms by crossing over the Line of Control (LoC).The slain militant on the official record was getting education in Pakistan.
Separatists used to provide recommendation letters to youth to get admission in professional colleges in Pakistan occupied Kashmir. It was a game plan to radicalize the youth and make them lean towards separatism. The lid over the murky intentions of Pakistan and separatists was blown off by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in 2018 while investigating the different aspects of the terror funding case in Jammu and Kashmir.
In a charge sheet filed by the NIA in terror funding case in February 2018, the investigating agency stated that there is a triangular nexus of militants, the Hurriyat and the Pakistan establishment that is patronising the Kashmir students in order to prepare a generation of doctors and technocrats who will have leanings towards Pakistan.
The killing of a local militant, who had travelled to Pakistan for studies, is an indication that now Pakistan is using students to carry forward its proxy war in the region. Pakistan is using Kashmiri students as war weapons.
Kashmiri students who go to Pakistan to pursue higher studies from the very first day are fed with a narrative that they have got the admission on the basis of them being a part of a family that pursues separatist agenda and opposes New Delhi’s rule in Kashmir. When these students are admitted in the professional colleges, they are fed with the information that is in line with the country’s Kashmir policy. That policy is known to everyone that Pakistan wants every Kashmiri to become a part of the proxy war which it has been fighting in J&K for the past three decades. Pakistan on the pretext of providing education is radicalizing Kashmiri youth.
According to the data which was shared by the officials nearly a year ago, around 700 students from Jammu and Kashmir, maximum of them from the Valley, are pursuing different professional courses in Pakistan colleges.
The practice of sending Kashmiri students to Pakistan needs to end once for all. After August 5, 2019—when the Centre abrogated Article 370 and bifurcated J&K into two union territories—the ground situation changed as no one wants to visit Pakistan for studies.
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