SRINAGAR: Dukhtaran-e-Millat chairperson Aasiya Andrabi Monday warned parents for sending their teenaged daughters on Bharat Darshan tours organised by Indian Army.
It is shameful and deplorable on part of those parents who have consented and enrolled class 11th and 12th daughters for the Army tour, Ms Andrabi told the local news agency, CNS. I am not appealing to these parents but warning them to desist from such activities.
She said that a number of parents informed her over phone that authorities from girls higher secondary schools from all across Kashmir have been asking class 11th and 12th girl students to enroll themselves for the army tour starting from December 4 (Friday). The ugly part of the tour is that no member for any school is a part of the group but it will be only army that will accompany these girl students, she said.
The parents even informed me that the army has conveyed to the school authorities that these girl students will not only visit historical places of India but will also interact political leaders of India as well, Andrabi said. This is un-Islamic and a Muslim society like Kashmir never approves such shady tours.
It is the policy of Indian Army to martyr youth in Kashmir and degrade our society by organizing such tours for girls, she said. I am not appealing these parents who have enrolled their daughters for such tours but warning them.
Is this what Islam teaches us to handover our teen age daughters to strangers, she questioned.
Andrabi appealed to clerics and religious preachers to raise their voice against the new tactics of Army and also make people aware about the consequences of such fishy tours.
She revealed that some so-called reputed and known schools of Kashmir Valley have already enrolled girl students for the purpose and have handed over the names of these students to the Tour Organizers.
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