ISLAMABAD – Sikh Community in India comes forward to rescue Kashmirisfacing violence across India.

The Sikh community in India has extended a helping hand to students andtraders from Indian occupied Kashmir (IoK), who are facing violence inseveral cities in the wake of the Pulwama attack that killed more than 40Indian paramilitary troops.

Hundreds of Kashmiris are facing threats of violence and are being forcedout of cities across India after a 22-year-old suicide bomber rammed avehicle loaded with explosives into a convoy of paramilitary personnel,killing 44 Indian soldiers last Thursday.

Since the Pulwama attack, there have been several incidents of violenceagainst Kashmiri students and traders in some parts of India while hundredsof Kashmiris studying in colleges outside the valley have been forced toleave.

However, amid the prevailing terror, some Kashmiri students have beenhoused at a gurdwara in Mohali and Khalsa Aid — an international non-profitaid and relief organisation founded on the Sikh principles of selflessservice and universal love — is providing them transport to Jammu.