Not every Kashmiri student is an extremist: Punjab CM
TNN Bureau. Updated: 10/16/2018 10:43:33 AM
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JAMMU: While fearing that Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI could be operating through some Kashmiri students, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh Monday asserted that not every student from the Vallley, studying in the neighbouring state, was a separatist.
Singh’s comments came in the backdrop of recent arrest of four Kashmiri students in a raid at a college hostel in Jalandhar. A joint team of Jammu and Kashmir Police and Punjab police had seized an assault rifle and explosives from them last Wednesday.
“The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had for long been active in Punjab. Its game is to disturb India as much as they can, particularly the border states, including Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan, Gujarat. So the possibility of ISI operating through some Kashmiri students cannot be ruled,” Singh said at a presser in Chandigarh.
He, however, asserted that every student from Kashmir was not a separatist, adding that police had so far not established any links of the four arrested Kashmiri students with locals.
"We have got thousands of children from Kashmir who are studying in colleges in Punjab. Every child from Kashmir is not an extremist," he said and mentioned about the students who were arrested recently.
“The ISI will try, so we have to be one step ahead", the Punjab chief minister said.