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Kashmiri student in Jamia bags first Irom Sharmila scholarship
Times of India | Manash Pratim Gohain | TNN | Apr 8, 2013, 02.49 AM IST
A 22-year-old Kashmiri student became the first person to receive IromSharmila scholarship. IymonMajeed is currently pursuing MA political science from JamiaMilliaIslamia. He has been writing about experience of Kashmir with Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act 1958 and militarism for various publications.
In his application, Iymon said he was born in March 1991, nine months after AFSPA was implemented in J&K, in Panjipora village of Sopore district. In 1995, the Army commandeered his house and his family was thrown out. They changed four houses in the next two years and finally migrated to the main town of Sopore.
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