Srinagar, April 6 -- The Jammu & Kashmir Students Association (JKSA) on Sunday wrote to external affairs minister S Jaishankar, seeking his intervention for the urgent repatriation of the mortal remains of a Kashmiri youth, Bilal Manzoor Ganie, who passed away in Saudi Arabia.

National convener of the association Nasir Khuehami said that Bilal, a resident of Lolab in north Kashmir's Kupwara district, had been working in Saudi Arabia for the past one and a half years as a nursing assistant at Aaba International Hospital.

"On April 4, 2026, he suffered a sudden cardiac arrest and was rushed to the same hospital, where doctors declared him brought dead," he said.

He stated that his sudden and untimely death left his family and the entire ...