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‘My father was militant, not me’- Kashmiris with Pakistani MBBS degrees are desperate for jobs

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‘My father was militant, not me’- Kashmiris with Pakistani MBBS degrees are desperate for jobs

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Hundreds of certificates of Kashmiri students with MBBS degrees from Pakistan are now stuck in a liminal space of state suspicion, security fears and stigma in Narendra Modi’s India. What was once kosher in Kashmir’s separatist political culture, which recognised no borders, is today an unacceptable practice. Kashmiri students began going to Pakistan for MBBS in the early 2000s. Pakistan offered a special quota for students from Kashmir for all professional courses, especially MBBS and engineering, covering lodging and tuition fees. Watch this video to know more.

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