Kashmiri separatist leaders have been long accused of letting the youths and children of the valley suffer while their own children study or work abroad.

In yet another case of such double standards, it has now been reported that while the separatist party Hurriyat Conference forced all the schools in the valley to shut down ever since the killing of Hizbul terrorist Burhan Wani one school is not included in the 'bandh calendar'.

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According to The Indian Express, the Delhi Public School in Srinagar recently held internal exams for 573 students from Class 9 and 10. And one of the students who appeared for the exam was the granddaughter of Syed Ali Shah Geelani.

The class 10 student is the daughter of Geelani’s eldest son Dr Nayeem Zafar Geelani.

Nayeem who is not a member of Hurriyat Conference, and lives with his family separately in Srinagar told The Indian Express that his daughter attend the exam.

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"Once the school decided to hold the internal exams, it was mandatory for my daughter, like other students, to appear as they carried a weightage of 70 per cent marks. If my daughter had skipped the exams, she wouldn’t have been able to sit for the final exams scheduled for next March.’’

According to the report the exam was held between October 1-5 in an indoor stadium inside a high-security zone in the city with assistance from the J&K government.

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This also comes amid reports of an increase in 'Taliban-style' attacks on schools across the valley. Recently a number of government school buildings were set on fire by unidentified miscreants.