New Delhi, India – Walking through the narrow and crowded of Jalandhar, a city in the northern state of Punjab, *Aasif suddenly realized that “all eyes were on me.”
And they are friendly looks.
“I felt that all the people of the crowd had revenge in their eyes,” Dar recalled.
When giving and a friend stopped at an ATM, two unknown people approached them, asking for their ethnic group. He panicked and escaped. The next morning, to April 23, give his home to buy milk. “Three men saw me and threw Islamophobic insults,” Dar said. “One of them shouted,” it’s a purse, everything happens due to them. “
On Tuesday, April 22, the gunmen opened fire against tourists in the tourist city of Cashmiro or Pahalgam, killing 26 tourists and hurting a boxes to others.
However, just when New Delhi has blamed Pakistan for the attack, which was claimed by an armed group that secession of India, murders have also opened the country’s religious and ethnic failures.
As the Indian government forces continue to look for attackers in the dense jungles and mountains of Kashmir, the purse who live throughout India, especially students, have reported that harassment, harassment and threats on the extreme right.
From Uttarakhand, Punjab, to Uttar Pradesh, the owners are pushing the tenants of Kashmir; And merchants refuse to trade with them. Several Kashmir students are sleeping at airports while trying to return home.
Someone else carried out the deadly attack. “And now we have here to pay the price,” said Dar.
‘Distrust wherever I look’
The disputed Kashmir region is claimed in its entirety, but governed in parts, both by India and Pakistan.
Nueva Delhi has accused Islamabad or an indirect participation in “cross -border terrorism” and Pahalgam’s attack. Pakistan refutes the accusations and says that it only provides moral and diplomatic support to the nationalism of Kashmir. He said that India has not provided evidence of Pakistan’s participation in Pahalgam’s attack, which has left neighbors with nuclear weapons locked in a tense confrontation: New Delhi has left a shared water treaty; Both nations are expelling citizens of others and are reducing the diplomatic strengths of their missions in the capital of the other.
But inside India, the puppy are taking the worst part of the anger for Tuesday’s attack.
Almost a boxmira boxes that spoke with Al Jazeera, all under anonymity, said they have locked themselves inside their rooms in at least seven cities in India, and avoid any external contact, including the placement of online orders or the taxi reserve.
Dar is a student in the second semester of anesthesia and theater technology Operation in Jalandhar. It is the first time that giving has left their parents already Kashmir to follow higher education.
“There are no opportunities in Kashmira, and I want to study a lot for my future,” he said in a telephone interview. “If I do it well here, I can keep my family.”
But the reality is sobering for him. With his term exams breathing around his neck, he said he has become anxious and depressed. “I have forgotten everything I have learned in these months,” he said. “There is constant uncertainty: I can remain not authenticated [at class]; Go back to my house, I don’t know, my head simply doesn’t work. “
“There is distrust everywhere where I look,” he said. “We are also damn because the face and characteristics give our ethnicity.”
Shortly after the attack, multiple survivors’ accounts arose, he suggested that the gunmen separated tourists attacked by religion. Of the 26 people killed, 25 were Hindu men.
But to a large extent it was lost in the tornado of Anti-Kashmiri and anti-musulman hate that has tasks on Indian social networks since Tuesday, was the identity of the 26th murdered person: a Muslim man of Kashmir who tried to prevent the attackers from murdering.
“Today’s India extends with xenophobic propaganda and that has bones unleashed for some years; most are against Muslims,” said Sheikh Showkat, political and academic analyst based in Kashmir.
“The puppy have a double weight: or be a puppy, and Muslim,” he said. “They are always the easy goals.”
‘Give this treatment to Muslims of Kashmir’
At almost 350 km (217 miles) by Jalandhar, in Dehradun, the state capital of Uttarakhand, the leader of an extreme right -wing team Hindutva issued a chilling warning in Tesday.
“We hope to wait for the government to take measures … Muslims of Kashmir, go at 10 am, otherwise, you will face the action you can’t imagine,” said Lalit Sharma, Hindu leader Raksha Dal in a video statement. “Tomorrow, all our workers will leave their homes to give treatment to Muslims of Kashmir.”
Similar warnings soon came to the feeding of *Mushtaq Wani’s social networks, a 29 -year -old background student in the city.
Pursuing his mastery in library, Wani, who is old that most of Kashmir students in the city began to receive panic calls from others. “We take threats seriously,” he said.
There is a history of violence against the Kashmir in the region: shortly after the mortal suicide bombing attack in 2019 in pulwama, which killed at least 40 members of the paramilitary personnel, the students of Kashmir were persecuted in Dehradun, beaten and forced home. Several did not return to the city.
“This is how our life is,” Wani lamented. “This happens again and again: why can’t India finish the militants at once? They have so many soldiers and the [number of] militant [is] So less … someone kills someone and our lives turn turned away. “
From the threats, Wani has coordinated at least 15 students who travel back to Kashmir. As for yourself, you are sitting tight, locked inside a friend of a friend, preparation for your terms of next week. “We are scared and we don’t feel safe, but I miss my exams, I have a lot to lose,” he said.
However, Wani said, he felt a little relieved after the police arrested Sharma, the extreme right leader, and assured the students of Kashmiro that the authorities would guarantee their safety.
‘Pahalgam changed everything’
After videos of frighted kashmiris, and of their physical assault in nearly hay a boxes indian Cities, Hit Social Media, Omar Abdullah, The Newly elected chief minist or jammu and kashmir, urged other state chiefs on x to safety the safety or kashety or kashety or kashety or Kashety of Kashety or Kashety or Kashety or Kashety or Kashety or Kashety or Kashety or Kashety or Kashety or Kashety or Kashety or Kashetyris.
“I request the people of India not to consider the people of Kashmir as their enemies,” Abdullah told journalists. “What happened did not take place with our consent. We are not the enemies.”
In 2019, the Indian government unilaterally revoked the semi-autonomous status of the region and divided the old state into two union-Jamm and Kashmir territories, and a communications blackout from Ladakh-Aa-Amid. Just although Abdullah came to power last year after the first state elections of the Legislature in a decade, the government of Jammu and Kashmir today has much less power than another provincial administration, with New Delhi to a large extent in charge.
*Uumer Parray, resident or southern back, has been studying pharmacy in Jammu for five years. The Muslim majority of Kashmir and Jammu of the Hindu majority are two administrative blocks of the territory of the Union.
Even Pahalgam, life had been fine in Jammu, he said. “But Pahalgam’s attack changed everything,” he said.
Previously, Parray would go walking late at night with friends to ice cream shops. Since the attack, Parray has not left his home in a neighborhood where many Kashmir residents live.
The night after the attack, the dishes of young men rode by the neighborhood on the bicycle horns and shouting “Jai Shri Ram”, historical a religious song and greeting the extreme right groups, in recent years, they became A.
Later, a video of men hitting and running after the school students in their adjacent lane emerged.
“We’ve never seen anything like that,” he said.
Beef for being Muslim from Kashmira, a puppy student was beaten by the mafia in Janipur, Jammu last night.
How long will we be criminalized by our identity? This is our home too.#Cashmere #Jammu #Stoptargetingkashmiris pic.twitter.com/ubfaggirwx– MUBBSHIR NAIK (@Sule_Khaak) April 24, 2025
* The names of Kashmir students have changed their legs to protect their identities, amid the fear of remuneration attacks.