New Delhi: Protests against the crackdown at JNU received support from across the border on Thursday with a group of students from Pakistan condemning the government action.
Democratic Student's Alliance, an "ínformal" organisation of lean-leaning students, wrote an open letter pledging support to the "brave students" of JNU.
"We strongly condemn the arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar (JNUSU), the attack on JNU and extend our solidarity and lend our entire support to the brave students standing against this injustice," the letter said.
The Pakistani students also vowed to continue their struggle for reviving students unions in the country, saying they admire their existence in India.
"We reject the charges of sedition, subversion and treason that are used to silence, suppress and smother voices that do not resonate with state-sanctioned truths," the letter further said.
Kanhaiya Kumar, president of the JNU students union, is in judicial custody in a case of sedition after anti-India slogans were raised at a campus event held in memory of Parliament attacker Afzal Guru.
The JNU agitation featured in Pakistani media with the newspaper The Nation saying in its editorial that in both countries merely presenting a different viewpoint will get one labelled "änti-nationalist."
"This is simply because of a lack of culture of dissent, which has been further exacerbated by the rise of the Saffron tide and hyper-nationalism in India," the article said.
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