Srinagar
In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, women from Pakistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir, who married Kashmiri men and had traveled to IIOJK after 2010 announcement of amnesty policy for former mujahideen by then chief minister, Omar Abdullah have reiterated demands of citizenship rights and travel documents for them and their children to visit their parents, siblings and relatives across the border.
The group of women addressing a press conference in Srinagar on Monday appealed to the governments of India and Pakistan to look into their issues from a humanitarian point of view.
“We see the last glimpses of our dead relatives on the phone. We see their funerals on video calls. What can be a bigger tyranny than this? Imagine the plight of one’s daughter or sister if she can’t visit her home for 9-10 years or you can’t see her dead body,” said Taiba, a resident of Baramulla district, who had come with her Kashmiri husband and three kids nine years ago from Pakistan.
She said that the 2010 promise of rehabilitation was all false. “They did not fulfill any of their promises. Instead cases were filed against us. We neither got documents like Aadhar card or election card nor were we given any citizenship although we knocked at every door,” she added.
“Our children are suffering the most. They should get travel documents so that they could acquire education outside,” she said.—KMS
