AJK-origin wives of IIOJK people treated by authorities as second-class citizens
Srinagar: The women from Azad Jammu and Kashmir, married to Kashmiri men, have been treated by the authorities as second-class citizens in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to Kashmir Media Service, these women, who returned to the Kashmir valley under Omar Abdullah’s so-called rehabilitation policy in 2010, urged the authorities either provide them with citizenship rights or deport them back to Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
The victim women along with their children are demanding justice on humanitarian grounds. “We are suffering badly having no security or citizenship rights and are not being allowed to visit our home,” a victim woman said.
“We are living a miserable life here and our future seems bleak,” she said, adding scores of AJK women, who had arrived in occupied Jammu and Kashmir along with their husbands through India-Nepal border under the then Indian government’s rehabilitation policy in 2010 are being cheated and considered as second-class citizens.
“We are also human beings and want to be treated justly. What is our fault? We were promised something but got another thing. Now our husbands are living peacefully, but we are suffering. We are out of touch with our families. On humanitarian grounds, we should be given citizenship rights and passports and education benefits to our children”, another victim woman said.
