NEW DELHI: Kashmiri students and businessmen are being openly assaulted, threatened and asked to leave India at the earliest.
Kashmiri students studying and businessmen doing their business in different Indian states including Punjab, Utter Pardash, Karnatka, Haryana, Delhi, Gujarat and Maharashtra are facing brutal attacks at the hands of Hindutva goons.
Students have reported harassment and intimidation after an attack on tourists in Pahlgamin the Himalayan region, a Kashmiri student association said on Thursday.
Kashmiri students were asked to leave their rented apartments or university hostels and leave India, Jammu and Kashmir Students Association convenor Nasir Khuehami said.
Students at a university in Himachal Pradesh were harassed and physically attacked after hostel doors were broken, Khuehami said.
The students were allegedly called “terrorists”, he said. “This is not just a security issue,” he said. “It is a deliberate and targeted campaign of hate and vilification against students from a particular region and identity.”
In Uttarakhand’s capital city Dehradun, around 20 students fled to the airport following warnings from Hindu Raksha Dal, a fringe right-wing group.
The students said that the group threatened Kashmiri Muslim students with dire consequences if they did not leave town immediately.
Kashmir Civil Society while expressing concern over attacks on Kashmiri students and business urged international community to take notice of the situation and resolve Kashmir dispute as per UN resolutions.
