J&K government on Thursday facilitated return of 14 Kashmiri girls, who completed their quarantine in Amritsar in Punjab after returning from abroad.

The development comes three days after former chief minister Omar Abdullah and Iltija Mufti, daughter of PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, urged the J&K administration to facilitate their return home.

An official said J&K government has facilitated return of 14 citizens who were quarantined in Amritsar upon their return to India from overseas. “The persons are on their way home from Amritsar in an SRTC bus the government has arranged for their return,” he added.

He said the girls, who are pursuing MBBS in Pakistan, had returned to India on March 19 and completed their quarantine period on April 1, 2020.

Miss Mufti had said that 14 girls from Kashmir are stuck in Amritsar since a month. “They’ve finished quarantine and are desperate to return home,” she wrote on the official twitter handle of her mother. Miss Mufti has been using the twitter handle of Ms Mehbooba since she was arrested and booked under PSA.

“If J&K residents were airlifted from Mumbai, why can’t J&K administration simply arrange a bus for them,” she had asked.

Meanwhile, retweeting Miss Mufti tweet, Mr Abdullah had urged the government to airlift them to the valley. “J&K has a 9 seater Beechcraft aircraft that isn’t doing much these days. Why can’t this plane make two sorties to Amritsar to fly these girls back home? The whole exercise will be completed in a matter of a few hours with support from @capt_amarinder,” Mr Abdullah wrote on micro-blogging site twitter.