Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 19: Pannun Kashmir has reiterated its demand for early return and rehabilitation for Kashmiri Pandits, as per margdarshan resolution of 1991, to preserve and protect its ethnic culture, on the 32nd day of "Holocaust day of Kashmiri Pandits."
This was disclosed by the convenor of the party Ravinder Jalali in a meeting held in Jammu to mark 19th Jan as NISHKASAN DAY, the day Kashmiri Pandits were hounded out of their homes and hearths by the Islamic radicals.
Vijay Bhat President of Panun Kashmir while addressing the party workers via net said "It was the day when ethnic cleansing and genocide of our community began on a large and planned scale". It was unanimously resolved to fight tooth and nail to achieve the goal without any compromise. The party also took the Govt. to task for deliberating delaying the process of resettlement of KPs in State, which only favors the separatists and those who are bent upon opposing our return to Valley.
Needless to mention that the day is being observed as Holocaust Day (Nishkasan Day) every year by the community, said Vijay Bhat. It was on this day in 1990 when, throughout the day, terrorists use public address systems at mosques to exhort people to defy curfew and take to the streets. Masked men, firing from their Kalashnikovs, march up and down, terrorizing Pandits who, by then, have locked themselves in their homes. As evening falls, the exhortations become louder and shriller. The taped Jihadi and Islamic slogans were repeatedly played the whole night from mosques.
Vijay Bhat reminded and reiterated that no less than a Homeland, as per Margdarshan resolution of 1991, is acceptable to Kashmiri Pandits. It was unanimously resolved in the meeting that Kashmiri Pandits cannot be further used as cannon fodder or guinea pigs for experiments.
Rajinder Raina Gen. Sec. and spokesperson, while appreciating the reorganization of state, said it is incomplete without carving a separate homeland for Kashmiri Pandits as decided in Margdarshan resolution of 1991. |
