Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Dec 4: Pakistani women married to ex-Kashmiri militants today staged a protest in the premises of District Development Commissioner Office here in North Kashmir’s Kupwara district.
Holding placards, and raising slogans they asked Government of India either provide them citizenship rights or deport them back to Pakistan.
The women said that they have been protesting for long now to get the attention of the Government, however, so far, no one has bothered to listen to them.
They had returned to the Valley under Government’s rehabilitation policy in 2010 during the tenure of Omar Abdullah as a chief minister.
These women said that scores of them after reaching Kashmir with their former husbands via India-Nepal border under were being treated as ‘second-class citizens’.
“We are suffering badly; either send us back or give us citizenship rights. We appeal both India and Pakistan to think about us. We want to visit our home,” the protesting women said. (PTI)
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