Srinagar
Former Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti on Monday asked New Delhi to intervene in withdrawing cases against Kashmiri students at Aligarh Muslim University and revoking their suspension.

Mehbooba said pushing the youth to the wall would be counterproductive. “Pushing youth to the wall will be counterproductive. The Centre must intervene in withdrawing cases against students and the AMU authorities must revoke their suspension. The state governments outside J&K should be sensitive to the situation here and prevent further alienation,” Mehbooba wrote on Twitter.

“It will be a travesty to punish them for remembering their former colleague who was a victim of relentless violence in Kashmir,” she tweeted. Democratic Party Nationalist president and former minister Ghulam Hassan Mir has shown concern about the fate of the students studying in the AMU. In his statement, he appealed to the Governor to take up the issue with the AMU Vice Chancellor so that the future of these students is protected and their career is not destroyed.