Khalsa Aid, an international non-profit aid organisation known for their relief work left no stone unturned in providing any help to the Kashmiri students receiving backlash after the terror attack that took place in Pulwama.
Days that followed the terror attack that jolted India, Kashmiri students living outside home state for their colleges and going home in fear of attacks.
The Khalsa Aid is helping students in reaching their homes and help them provide food. Many buses have been arranged for the students to travel from Punjab to Kashmir.
In Dehradun, citing police sources, News agency IANS reported that dozens of Kashmiri students have left for their homes since Friday after being allegedly intimidated by mobs following the ghastly attack on a CRPF convoy in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Thursday that killed 49 troopers.
The safe & orderly evacuation of Kashmiri students from Chandigarh& Dehradun was led by @amarpreet1313 , the Asia-Pacific Director of @Khalsa_Aid ! Our thanks to Amarpreet Singh & the India team for their hardwork In difficult circumstances ?? pic.twitter.com/TuZkXP7cqZ
— Khalsa Aid (@Khalsa_Aid) February 20, 2019
Kashmiri Students:
“We wanted to be there for them as a community, as human beings first of all,” said Nazia Kamboj, education coordinator for Khalsa Aid…..” #Humanity https://t.co/mJ7gZ3XMEq
— Khalsa Aid (@Khalsa_Aid) February 19, 2019
At least 40 CRPF troopers were killed and some 20 others injured on Thursday when a van packed with explosives reportedly rammed into a CRPF bus on the Srinagar-Jammu highway in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district. In the deadliest attack ever on security forces in Jammu and Kashmir, a Jaish suicide bomber rammed a vehicle carrying over 100 kg of explosives into a CRPF convoy of 70 vehicles in Pulwama district.
The attack took place when the CRPF was moving 2,547 CRPF jawans/officers in two convoys moving close to each other from Jammu to South Kashmir in 78 vehicles including, buses, armoured vehicles and jeeps.
