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| 800 parents seek return of their wards | | HM’s amnesty package | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, April 19: Finally the Home Ministry’s amnesty package for militants seems to have evoked good response. A Local news agency quoting official sources today said that 800 applications had been preferred from across the state. However, the agency could not confirm whether the parents of disappeared persons had availed the package or not.
The Union Home Secretary GK PIllai while talking to newsmen last week said that the return of the youth is likely to start from June.
The scheme announced last year is likely to bring joy to hundreds of distressed families in the Kashmir Valley and other Muslim-dominated areas in the Jammu region whose youths went across loC to seek arms training in 1990 and onwards.
According to official estimates, some 3,000 Kashmiri men are in Pakistan living in trying conditions, involved in petty jobs, many of them even begging, according to people who have visited the area.
This, according to officials, includes the youth considered disappeared by human rights groups in Kashmir. However, the parents of disappeared persons have been strongly contesting the claim. According to them around 8000 youth have been subjected to enforced disappearance since 1990.
They (youth in Pakistan) have been writing to and calling up their families to impress upon the government to facilitate their home coming, officials believe.
The scheme was announced last year. On return the person has to undergo brief detention during which he shall be jointly interrogated by various security agencies.
After home coming the person has to present himself in the concerned police station once a week at least. He cannot leave the state without permission and the scheme is silent over rehabilitation. The package also does not exonerate persons wanted in criminal cases.
The separatists and the Muzaffarabad based United Jehad Council (UJC) have rejected the package. However, the people by and large have welcomed it.
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