ISLAMABAD: India’s decision to effectively ban its citizens from studying in Pakistan has put in jeopardy the future of hundreds of students from occupied Kashmir. The APHC is an alliance of several parties that has spearheaded Kashmir’s movement for self-determination and resistance against Indian rule since the early 1990s. Pakistan provides students from Indian-occupied Kashmir with scholarships covering tuition fees, boarding and lodging and other facilities at educational institutions across the country. Since they were partitioned in 1947, Pakistan and India have fought three wars — in 1948, 1965 and 1971 — and two of them were over Kashmir. Some groups in Jammu and Kashmir have been fighting against Indian rule for independence or unification with Pakistan.

Source: Pakistan Today April 27, 2022 14:37 UTC