{"id":21714,"date":"2020-03-23T22:49:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T17:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=21714"},"modified":"2020-03-23T22:49:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T17:19:41","slug":"kashmiri-students-in-bangladesh-asked-to-leave-they-urge-jk-govt-mea-to-evacuate-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=21714","title":{"rendered":"Kashmiri students in Bangladesh asked to leave; they urge J&#038;K govt, MEA to evacuate them"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Will take up issue with GoI: Baseer Khan<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Srinagar, Mar 23: While the government has suspended international flights in India in wake of coronavirus pandemic, scores of Kashmiri students in Bangladesh say they have been asked to leave. They appealed External Affairs Minister to intervene and also issued an appealed to west Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to open borders for them and let them to India so that they can go home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are around 80 students from different colleges, stuck here (in Bangladesh) and have been asked by the administration to evict the hostel with immediate effect,\u201d a student of Eastern Medical College Comilla told GNS over phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge the Government of Jammu and Kashmir and Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Government of India to take immediate measures in bringing us back to Kashmir,\u201d the student said, flanked by others, said.<\/p>\n<p>The students said that in wake of suspension of international flights in India, they must be allowed to enter India through border. \u201cWe urge Chief Minister of West Bengal to let us in through border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When contacted, Advisor to LG Baseer Khan said he will look into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will take up the issue with the Government of India as well as authorities in Bangladesh and will put in all efforts to bring these students back at the earliest,\u201d Khan said. (GNS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will take up issue with GoI: Baseer Khan Srinagar, Mar 23: While the government has suspended international flights in India in wake of coronavirus pandemic, scores of Kashmiri students in Bangladesh say they have been asked to leave. They appealed External Affairs Minister to intervene and also issued an appealed to west Bengal Chief Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}