{"id":5006,"date":"2016-09-27T09:14:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T03:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=5006"},"modified":"2016-09-27T09:14:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T03:44:24","slug":"can-still-become-doctor-insha-asks-womens-panel-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=5006","title":{"rendered":"Can I still become a doctor, Insha asks women\u2019s panel head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <span class=\"author vcard\">Moazum Mohammad<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Srinagar: Insha Malik, a girl from Shopian who was blinded when a trooper fired a full cartridge of pellets into her face, has asked the chairperson of State Women\u2019s Commission whether she can still pursue her dream of becoming a doctor.<br \/>\nProbably aware of what has befell her, she also asked Mehjoor if not a doctor she would like to become a lawyer.<br \/>\n\u201cInsha is in trauma and was not willing to talk at first. She doesn\u2019t want to go to Kashmir because of the atrocities people are facing here,\u201d said Mehjoor, who said she spent three hours with the girl in Mumbai, where she is being treated.<br \/>\n\u201cMany people have faced atrocities here and how can we remain alive? That\u2019s why she said Kashmir is not a good place,\u201d she said while admitting that \u201cexcessive force\u201d was used for which she \u201cfelt ashamed before Insha.\u201d<br \/>\nInsha suffered horrific pellet injuries in her entire face after a trooper fired at her when she was looking out of a window of her home in Sedav village of Shopian.<br \/>\nThe picture showing her disfigured face became one of the iconic images of the state repression during the raging uprising.<br \/>\nHer parents explained to Mehjoor how the forces attacked their unarmed daughter, who was not part of any protests.<br \/>\n\u201cShe was not carrying stones or was not part of any protest. She was studying at home that time,\u201d her parents told Mehjoor.\u00a0 Her mother wept and said they don\u2019t need anything but \u201cgive her eyes back.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cInsha told me \u2018I want to move forward, do I have to compromise on my education\u2019. I told her it is unfortunate but you should move ahead bravely,\u201d Mehjoor said, adding, \u201cHer teeth have also got damaged and she has a scar on her head.\u201d<br \/>\nMehjoor, the former BBC broadcaster, termed Insha as a brave girl and said her parents have come to terms with what happened to their daughter.<br \/>\n\u201cThey want an end to the excessive force. They are helpless. It is a dilemma for them for the entire life. We have to take her out of trauma,\u201d she said describing her interaction with Insha as \u201cpainful\u201d.<br \/>\nMehjoor said Insha asked her to pray for her.<br \/>\n\u201cWe can take her to outside India so that she can regain her eyesight in one eye. A Mumbai-based NGO Sarhad is willing to help her,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Moazum Mohammad Srinagar: Insha Malik, a girl from Shopian who was blinded when a trooper fired a full cartridge of pellets into her face, has asked the chairperson of State Women\u2019s Commission whether she can still pursue her dream of becoming a doctor. Probably aware of what has befell her, she also asked Mehjoor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006","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=5006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/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=5006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}