Cut off from family and home, dark day for Kashmiris in Chennai on Eid

Chennai | Tuesday | 13th August, 2019

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“It pains me to see people celebrating on Facebook and sharing WhatsApp messages, talking ill of Kashmiri women,’’ he says. We have not had this kind of an Eid ever in our life,’’ says Firdouz Ahmed (34), another Kashmiri in Spencer. Firdouz’s family has 16 members and he has no clue what has happened to them in Kashmir. Meanwhile, the Kashmiri community in Chennai strongly condemned the government’s move to turn Kashmir into a union territory. “They (Union government) want to rule the land and it’s not for the development of the State,’’ says Ijaz..