Altaf Hamid Rao.
Calls for providing them residence-ship being wives of the State subject youths, travel documents,
MIRPUR (AJK), (Parliament Times) : Hundreds of Pakistani women, mostly hailing from Azad Jammu Kashmir, married to Kashmiris belonging to Indian Illegally occupied Jammu Kashmir State and returned back to the Valley, especially after then Omar Abdullah-led puppet government of the State unveiled a policy for their return in 2010, are living a miserable life as neither they have been given citizenship rights nor travel documents to get back to Pakistan, says a report reaching here Saturday from across the line of control.
“These women and their children can neither go back to Pakistan nor stay with their due civil rights in IIOJK. For the past several years, they have been protesting in different parts of the Occupied Jammu Kashmir to seek citizenship rights and travel documents to visit Pakistan, but nobody in the Indian government as well as the puppet State administration is giving them a hearing”, the report said.
According to the report many such women in IIOUK are struggling to make the both ends meet and are facing immense mental trauma and agony.
“These women along with their children had been brought back by then puppet IIOJK State government on a rehabilitation promise. But it is utterly shocking that all these years, these women and their children had to face only humiliation and mental agony”, it revealed.
The IIOJK civil society has urged the government of India to either should deport them or provide them with the travel documents so that they can visit their parents, siblings and relatives across the LoC – Azad Jammu Kashmir. ‘’Also their children must be given travel documents so that if they want they could acquire education outside or work outside”, civil society demanded, according to the report.
“It is a humanitarian issue and must be looked from a humanitarian point of view. The 2010 promise of rehabilitation was all illusionary, but now time has come when the Government of India needs to take immediate decision over their plight”, the IIOJK civil society maintained, the report added.