Srinagar, April 6 -- The Jammu & Kashmir Students Association (JKSA) on Monday wrote to External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, seeking urgent intervention in the detention of a Kashmiri youth in Saudi Arabia.
In its letter, the Association stated that the youth, Amjad Ali Bhat, a resident of Gund Ibrahim village in Pattan area of Baramulla district in Jammu & Kashmir, belongs to the Shia community and was working as a Nurse Specialist in Dammam with a Saudi Arabia-based company.
National Convenor of the Association, Nasir Khuehami, said that Amjad Bhat was reportedly detained by the Saudi Civil Defence Forces on March 25. The detention is believed to have followed a social media post described as a tribute to Iran's assassinated Supreme...