Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday have set the ball rolling for the deportation of 60 Pakistanis, one among them the mom of Shaurya Chakra awardee who was killed in a terror assault, officers mentioned.
They had been all collected from numerous districts and brought in buses to Punjab, the place they are going to be handed over to the Pakistani authorities on the Wagah border, they mentioned.
Within the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror assault final week, the Centre introduced a slew of measures, together with suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, downgrading diplomatic relations with Islamabad, and ordering all Pakistanis on short-term visas to depart India by April 27 or face motion.
The 60 deportees comprise wives and kids of ex-militants, who returned to the valley beneath the 2010 rehabilitation coverage for former ultras.
Of them, 36 had been dwelling in Srinagar, 9 every in Baramulla and Kupwara, 4 in Budgam, and two in Shopian district, officers mentioned.
Shameema Akhtar, the mom of Constable Mudasir Ahmad Shaikh, who died in Might 2022 whereas combating terrorists, is likely one of the deportees.
Mudasir was a part of the workforce of undercover operatives of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, which intercepted a bunch of overseas terrorists.
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Shaikh was posthumously awarded the Shaurya Chakra. Shameema, accompanied by her husband, acquired the award from President Droupadi Murmu in Delhi in Might 2023.
“My sister-in-law is from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, which is our territory. Solely Pakistanis ought to have been deported,” an apparently not completely happy Mohammad Younus, Mudasir’s uncle, instructed reporters.
After Mudasir’s dying, Union Residence Minister Amit Shah visited the household, and so did the Lieutenant Governor, twice, he mentioned.
“My bhabhi was 20 years outdated when she got here right here and has been dwelling right here for 45 years now. My attraction to (PM Narendra) Modi and Amit Shah is that they need to not do it,” Younus mentioned.
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Shameema had married Mohammad Maqsood, a retired police officer, earlier than the eruption of militancy in Jammu and Kashmir in 1990.
The primary Baramulla city sq. has been named Shaheed Mudasir Chowk in reminiscence of the policeman.