Chandigarh,
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, who has gained admiration on social media for going out of her way to help Indians in foreign land, recently taught a Kashmiri student who was seeking her help a ‘lesson’.

Sheikh Ateeq, who tweets from his @SAteEQ019, had requested Swaraj to help him with getting a new passport and said he needed to get back to his “home, India” as his health was deteriorating.

“I am from J&K doing medicine course here in Philippines my passport got damaged I applied for new one 1 month ago I request u pls help me to get it as i literally need to go home for medical checkup (sic),” Ateeq tweeted.

Swaraj responded to Ateeq saying she would have helped him if he belonged to the state of Jammu and Kashmir but his profile said “Indian occupied Kashmir”.

“Your profile says you are from ‘Indian-occupied Kashmir’. There is no place like that,” Swaraj tweeted.

The youth promptly corrected the location on his Twitter bio to “jammu &kashmir/ manila”.

Swaraj acknowledged the correction in a tweet that was shared minutes later and asked the Indian Embassy in Manila to help the medical student.

Both of Swaraj’s tweets have been shared over 5,000 times and have been liked by nearly 10,000 people.