3 Kashmir varsities end MOUs with US NGO after ‘security concerns’

SRINAGAR: Three universities successful Kashmir person terminated world agreements with a US-based NGO, Kashmir Care Foundation (KCF), pursuing interior reviews amid a buzz that quality agencies had flagged concerns implicit its activities.University of Kashmir, Islamic University of Science and Technology (IUST) and Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir (SKUAST-K) issued orders cancelling MOUs with the Atlanta-based KCF. University of Kashmir and SKUAST-K did truthful connected March 25 and IUST the pursuing day.Naseer Iqbal, University of Kashmir’s registrar, wrote to KCF president Altaf K Lal pointing retired that the MoU was executed betwixt connected Dec 15, 2025, “with the nonsubjective of furthering acquisition initiatives through-workshops, seminars and different world engagements successful STEM (science, tech, engineering, mathematics) humanities and related fields”.Officials said the terminations followed “adverse reports”, underscoring increasing caution implicit collaborations with overseas institutions, particularly successful areas similar technology, research, and information sharing.“The MoU has been reviewed by competent authorities and it has been determined that continuation is not successful the larger organization involvement of the university,” the registrar’s missive states.Registrar Iqbal said KCF was tally by Altaf, a Kashmiri based successful the US, adding the MOU had a termination clause. “We decided connected our ain to terminate it arsenic we thought it was not advisable (to continue) owed to truthful galore reasons,” Iqbal said, declining to spell into specifics.The 3 varsities made it wide that nary wealth was exchanged, nor liabilities created, during the MOU period.