'India should reserve IIT, IIM seats for Pakistani Kashmiris'
New Delhi: India should reserve seats in its elite educational institutions for Pakistani Kashmiris who are bearing the brunt of state apathy, a new report has recommended. The report, "Pakistan Occupied Kashmir: Changing the Discourse", by New Delhi-based Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, recasts the demand of students of Gilgit-Baltistan to have quotas in the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and law colleges of India. The demand was made by residents of Pakistani Kashmir during their visit to India in 2006. "Not very long ago, in 2006, students from Gilgit-Baltistan demanded reservation of seats in top Indian institutions. This should not be very difficult for the Indian government to implement," the IDSA report recommends. The Gilgit-Baltistan residents, who were in Delhi for a conference, had passed a resolution that stated, "The Government of India should provide openings in higher, professional a...