A STUDENT of University of Kashmir is being treated like a common criminal by the police for upholding and working for the freedom of the Kashmiri people in occupied Kashmir.

Tahir Ahmad Mir, a resident of Bandipora district and journalism student at the university was arrested and put behind bars by Srinagar police on the allegation of being involved in pro-freedom activities. He sat his papers behind bars after the court ordered that he be allowed to take his exam.

He is the son of a police constable who lost his life while serving the Jammu and Kashmir administration. His mother died of grief as she lost her husband and then her son was arrested by the security forces.

It seems Tahir is being punished for setting up a relief committee to collect and distribute food and clothes for poor people residing in Bandipora district facing starvation owing to long spells of law and order situation created by the occupation forces, to wipe out the people’s freedom struggle.

A Kashmiri

Srinagar, occupied Jammu and Kashmir

Published in Dawn, May 28th, 2017