
24/09/2025
In occupied Kashmir, education has been turned into a weapon of cruelty.
While only 57% of students across India pay fees, an alarming 87% of Kashmiri students are forced to do so — with 100% at the higher secondary level. Rural or urban, boys or girls, nearly every child is made to pay what others in India do not.
For families already devastated by raids, curfews, and economic loss, these fees are crushing. Instead of opportunity, India is using education as a tool of punishment — blocking the future of Kashmir’s youth and silencing their struggle for freedom.
This is not policy failure, it is deliberate discrimination. Education, economy, and daily life have all been weaponized to weaken Kashmir.
The world must no longer stay silent. Justice delayed for Kashmir’s students is justice denied for an entire nation under occupation.