The nation needs to apologise to Kashmiri Pandits for not doing enough to protect their interests, former Jammu and Kashmir Governor S K Sinha said today.
"The whole nation needs to apologise to the Kashmiri Pandits, because we have not done what we should have done for them," Sinha said, referring to the community being forced out of their home state by terror groups.
Addressing the annual convention of Panun Kashmir, an outfit of Kashmiri Pandits, here, the former governor expressed "total confidence" in the army's ability to protect Jammu and Kashmir, saying: "No matter what anyone says so long as you have an army like the Indian Army the question of grabbing Kashmir does not arise.
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http://www.ptinews.com/news/442468_Nation-needs-to-apologise-to-Kashmiri-Pandits--Sinha
Kashmiri Pandits reject WG recommendation on J&K
Viewing seriously the recommendations of the Working Group on Centre-State relations released by the government, Panun Kashmir, an organisation advocating cause of displaced Kashmiri Pandits, today said that it rejects the recommendations, as it has potential to plunge the entire state into crisis.
"We view seriously the recommendations of Prime Minister's Working Group on Centre-State relations released by the government. We reject the recommendations, as it has potential to plunge the entire state into crisis of unprecedented dimensions," Panun Kashmir's media incharge, Ravi Punjabi told reporters here today.
"This is a retrograde step as would dilute the Indian sovereignty in the Jammu and Kashmir state", he said adding PK rejects all recommendations of political nature in the Report that jeopardise interests of the displaced Kashmiri Pandits, community, people of Jammu and Ladakh.
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http://www.ptinews.com/news/439750_Kashmiri-Pandits-reject-WG-recommendation-on-J-K
Sagir Ahmed report is biased
Panun Kashmir (PK), an organization of displaced Kashmiri pandits, rejected the Sagir Ahmed report on the "Centre-State relations", and protested against it saying recommendations in the report do not address the cause of Kashmiri pandits.
The activists alleged the recommendations do not address the issues of Kashmiri pandits who have been forced out from the valley by the Islamic fundamentalists.
"The report of the prime minister's working group on Centre-State relations headed by former chief justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court justice Sagir Ahmed is manipulated and is against the wishes of nationalist people of Jammu Dogras, Ladakhi Buddhist, Gujjars and Kashmiri pandits," PK president Ashwani Chrungoo told reporters.
"The report is illogical, unrealistic, biased and anti-Kashmiri pandits," he said during the demonstration where the activists shouted slogans against the recommendations in the report.
Jammu and Kashmir Minority Forum (JKMF)Demands
-There is need to implement the package at the earliest to redress the problems of the displaced pandit community.
-Already the schemes under this package for the community youth have been delayed raising doubts about the intentions of the government.
-The forum has already appealed to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram regarding the enhancement of Rs 7.5 lakhs for return and rehabilitation of the migrant pandits
Saghir Ahmad panel report exposed
The BJP has slammed the Justice Saghir Ahmad panel report recommending autonomy for Jammu & Kashmir. Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh “not to act” on recommendations of the report, which had been “improperly prepared” and “unilaterally authored”.
The senior BJP leader, who is a member of Justice Saghir-headed Prime Minister’s Working Group on J&K, wrote, “What was the compulsion to bypass the Working Group and produce the report? I have an uneasy feeling that the Government wants to show to some sections of the international community that it is willing to dilute the India’s position on Jammu & Kashmir. Is this report showcased for that purpose?”
Jaitley pointed out to the Prime Minister that the last meeting of the 21-member Working Group, which had leaders of many political parties as its members, was held on September 3, 2007 and the group was virtually abandoned since then.
“I have not received any communication with regard to any meeting for even discussing the report of this group. I have not seen any draft report of the group nor has the same ever been circulated. As per the record available with me, no meeting of this group has been held since September 3. It is, therefore, surprising that the group has come out with the report on various important and sensitive issues,” Jaitley claimed.
He contended that it was improper for a retired judge to have drafted a report on sensitive political subjects impinging on national sovereignty, that too two years after the last meeting of the group without bothering to discuss it with any member of the committee.
National shame
Arguing that a “judge by training is not competent” to comment on sensitive political issues, the BJP leader said a judge can “only adjudicate issues that are judicially determinable” and that “it is an improper practice to drag judges into the political thicket”.
In the group, comprising representatives of the Congress, BJP, National Conference, PDP, Panthers Party and groups of various Kashmiri Pandits, “no consensus could ever be possible”, Jaitley said.
Talking about the September meeting, the BJP leader said Justice Saghir indicated that the next meeting would be held after about a month’s time for taking further steps to finalise recommendations of the Working Group.
“However, no meeting was held after September 3 and for all practical purposes the Working Group stood abandoned,” he said in the letter. “Whose report is it that has now been presented to the State Government? Is it an opinion of a retired Judge of the Supreme Court,” he asked. The BJP leader said he would be sending a copy of the letter to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
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http://www.dailypioneer.com/225267/PM-panel-report-changes-India%E2%80%99s-position-on-JK-says-Jaitley.html
400,000 Kashmiri Hindus murdered (officially)
The violent Islamic insurgency has specifically targeted the Hindu Kashmiri Pandit minority and 400,000 have either been murdered or displaced.Islamic terrorists infiltrated the region in 1989 and began an ethnic cleansing campaign to convert Kashmir to a Muslim state. Since that time, over 400,000 Kashmiri Hindus have either been murdered or forced from their homes.
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http://www.house.gov/list/press/nj06_pallone/pr_feb15_kashmir.html
Militancy in Kashmir
In late 1989 and early 1990, Kashmiri Pandits had to flee the Kashmir valley because of being targeted by Kashmiri and foreign militants. By the turn of the last century, only 6.4% of Kashmiris were Hindus. The US Department of State reports that, according to the Indian National Human Rights Commission, the Kashmiri Pandit population in Jammu and Kashmir dropped from 15 percent in 1941 to 0.1 percent as of 2006.. According to the 1901 census, "In the Kashmir province they [Hindus] represent only 524 in every 10,000 of population [or 5.24%]..." while the 1941 census estimated the Hindu population of the Kashmir valley to be 4%.. According to a 2007 poll conducted by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi, 84 percent of people in Srinagar want to see the return of Kashmiri Pandits. A MORI survey found that within the Kashmir Valley, 92% respondents opposed the state of Kashmir being divided on the basis of religion or ethnicity. Due to muslim militancy assassination campaign to kill pandit community, by early 1990's, most Pandits -- close to 60,000 -- were out of their homes in kashmir.
In 1931 a group of Kashmiri Pandits formed the organization in Srinagar (Kashmir),named Sanatan Dharam Yuvak Sabha later changed to All State Kashmiri Pandit Conference. The 1st conference of the organization was presided over by Late Justice Jia Lal Kilam .
The violent Islamic insurgency has specifically targeted the Hindu Kashmiri Pandit minority and 400,000 have either been murdered or displaced. This has been condemned and labeled as ethnic cleansing in a 2006 resolution passed by the United States Congress. Also in 2009 Oregon Legislative Assembly passed a resolution to recognize September 14, 2007, as Martyrs Day to acknowledge ethnic cleansing and campaigns of terror inflicted on non-Muslim minorities of Jammu and Kashmir by militants seeking to establish an Islamic state.
The ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Pandits continues, with anti-Hindu threats made to them by militants as recently as 2009
The above information is taken from Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmiri_Pandit
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