With India-Pakistan clash in Asia Cup scheduled to take place this evening at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, the Jammu & Kashmir Student Association (JKSA), a Kashmiri student’s body has issued an advisory urging the students hailing from the state and studying at different universities to stay away from any social media posts.
JKSA national spokesperson Nasir Khuehami issued the advisory on Saturday asking the students to take it as just another game and stay away from trouble.
“We have urged Kashmiri students studying at different universities all over the nation to have their priority set for their education and career for which they have travelled to different parts of the nation from their home state of Jammu and Kashmir,” said Khuehami.
“These students need to take sports as a game and stay away from social media posts, during and after the match, which might create any kind of indiscipline at any institution across the country or land them in trouble,” he said.
“They should not get involved in unnecessary debates, discussions or social media chat and should enjoy the game with true sportsman spirit,” Khuehami appealed.
Arch-rivals India and Pakistan are all set for a T20 cricket match today and it is expected to be a high-voltage match.
Last year in October, Babar Azam led Pakistan defeated India by 10 wickets, following which a few students from Kashmir were arrested for uploading pro-Pakistan posts on social media.
“Out of three Kashmiri students studying at Agra, who were booked for making objectionable social media posts, only one is continuing his studies for engineering and two have returned home leaving studies in between after being released on bail from Agra District Jail on May 26, 2022,” Khuehami said.
The National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Srinagar has asked its students not to watch Sunday’s India-Pakistan Asia Cup cricket clash in groups or post anything related to the match on social media platforms.
In a notice issued by the dean of student’s welfare, the institute administration has asked the students to remain in their allotted rooms during the match.
“Students are aware that a cricket series involving various nations is going on in the Dubai International Stadium. Students are hereby directed to take sports as a game and do not create any kind of indiscipline in the institute/hostel,” the notice read.
“If there is a group of students watching the match in a particular room, then the students to whom that particular room is allotted will be debarred from the institute hostel accommodation and a fine of at least Rs 5,000 will be imposed on all the students involved,” it said.