30 years in exile, Kashmiri pandits demand one place for their settlement in Kashmir
4 years, 11 months ago

30 years in exile, Kashmiri pandits demand one place for their settlement in Kashmir

The Hindu  

Despite the social media having been deluged by displaced Kashmiri pandits’ video clippings vowing to “return and die” in the Valley, the community on Sunday appeared to be plagued by self doubts over the prospects of their return. The displaced Kashmiri pandits across the world commemorated January 19 as ‘holocaust day’, when over 70 thousand pandit families numbering over 3.5 lakh were forced out of the Valley due to killings and terror by Pakistan The event this year was held against the backdrop of abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir and the Citizenship Amendment Act. Sitting in one-room quartet at Jagti camp on the outskirts of Jammu city, 89-year-old Mohan Lal Dhar wants one place settlement for all Kashmiri pandits in Kashmir. Dhar, who is among the seven lakh-odd Kashmiri Pandits who had to flee Kashmir Valley in the wake of spread of terrorism in 1989-90, says they are living as “refugees in their own country” for three decades but nothing is being done for their return and rehabilitation, because terrorism is still on. 'One place-settlement' Spelling there demand, All State Kashmiri Pandit Conference General Secretary Dr T K Bhat said tmost Kashmiri pandits feel that “one place-settlement” is only alternative for return and rehabilitation of the minuscule community in Kashmir after ensuring their safety and security.

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Kashmiri pandits hold protest in Delhi, demand SIT probe into atrocities, homeland
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Kashmiri pandits hold protest in Delhi, demand SIT probe into atrocities, homeland

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: Members of the Kashmiri Pandit community on Saturday staged a sit-in at Jantar Mantar to observe the ‘Martyrs Day’ and reiterated their demand for a homeland for the exiled community. Every year, the community across India and around the world observes September 14 as ‘Martyrs Day’ to remember the violent events that led to the exodus of the …

Modi is visiting Kashmir's main city for the first time since revoking region's semi-autonomy in '19
10 months ago

Modi is visiting Kashmir's main city for the first time since revoking region's semi-autonomy in '19

The Independent  

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Modi visits Kashmir’s main city for the first time since revoking region’s semi-autonomy
10 months ago

Modi visits Kashmir’s main city for the first time since revoking region’s semi-autonomy

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday made his first official visit to Kashmir’s main city since New Delhi stripped the disputed region of its semi-autonomy and took direct control of it in 2019. Paramilitary soldiers patrol ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, March 6, 2024. In 2019, Modi’s …

Rehabilitate us in Kashmir, evict encroachers from our properties; Kashmiri Pandits to LG
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Rehabilitate us in Kashmir, evict encroachers from our properties; Kashmiri Pandits to LG

Hindustan Times  

: Internally displaced Kashmiri Pandits, who live in Jagti satellite township in Jammu district on Monday urged the government to initiate some measures for their rehabilitation in Kashmir. Addressing media persons, Shadi Lal Pandita, president of Jagti tenement committee and Soan Kashmir Front said, “For the past, over 34 years, Kashmiri Pandits are living like refugees in their own country. …

‘No reason’ to strip Kashmir autonomy: India’s top court told as it hears challenges to special status removal
1 year, 5 months ago

‘No reason’ to strip Kashmir autonomy: India’s top court told as it hears challenges to special status removal

The Independent  

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Kashmiri Pandits and stories of the state of exile
1 year, 8 months ago

Kashmiri Pandits and stories of the state of exile

Live Mint  

Last year, on a weekday in September, I watched a movie on Kashmiri Pandits at the City Centre in Salt Lake, Kolkata. Rupture: Stories On The Sorrows Of Kashmir, a collection of 12 short stories written by Kashmiri and Hindi writer and Sahitya Akademi winner Rattan Lal Shant, captures that state of mind. Shake Kashmir out with all your heart …

Even as locals protest Kashmiri Pandit’s killing in Pulwama, fear grips those staying back since 1990s
1 year, 10 months ago

Even as locals protest Kashmiri Pandit’s killing in Pulwama, fear grips those staying back since 1990s

The Hindu  

Local Muslims held protests and in hundreds joined the family of slain Kashmir Pandit Sanjay Sharma for the last rites in Pulwama’s Achan area on February 27, but the targeted killing has further shattered the confidence of the miniscule population of those Pandits who preferred to stay back despite raging militancy in the 1990s in the Kashmir valley. “Raliv, Galiv …

Kashmiri Pandit shot dead in J&K
1 year, 10 months ago

Kashmiri Pandit shot dead in J&K

Deccan Chronicle  

Srinagar: At a time when the Centre is making “concerted efforts” to encourage the Kashmiri Pandits to return to their hearth and home in the Valley, another member of the minority Brahmin Hindu community was shot dead by suspected militants in southern Pulwama district on Sunday. DIG Rayees Muhammad Bhat said: “Sharma, who was working as a bank security guard, …

Militants gun down Kashmiri Pandit, new terror outfit claims hand in killing
1 year, 10 months ago

Militants gun down Kashmiri Pandit, new terror outfit claims hand in killing

The Hindu  

A Kashmiri Pandit, who was a bank guard by profession, was shot dead by militants in south Kashmir’s Pulwama on Sunday, sparking protests from local political parties. ‘Killed like dogs’ The Sunday attack came just two days after a civilian, who is the brother of a slain policeman, was shot at and injured in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district by unknown …

DC Edit | India owes Valley’s exiled Pandits safe homecoming
1 year, 10 months ago

DC Edit | India owes Valley’s exiled Pandits safe homecoming

Deccan Chronicle  

No country should be housing a refugee camp for its own citizens. Yet, the continued plight of Kashmiri Pandits, who have been forced into an exile from their own rightful homes by separatist terrorist over three decades ago, and who can still not return to stake claim to their land, their rights, their past and hope to build a safe …

Day not far when Kashmiri Pandits will return to their homeland: J-K LG Sinha
1 year, 10 months ago

Day not far when Kashmiri Pandits will return to their homeland: J-K LG Sinha

Deccan Chronicle  

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha, said on Thursday that the day is not far when all Kashmiri Pandits would return to their homeland. “With God’s grace, all Kashmiri Pandits would return to their homes in Kashmir and the day is not far,” he told reporters after attending a 3-day-long Mahashivratri mela being held at Jagti Colony, a …

INTERVIEW | Anuradha Bhasin: ‘Fears of a demographic change valid’
1 year, 11 months ago

INTERVIEW | Anuradha Bhasin: ‘Fears of a demographic change valid’

The Hindu  

Published : Feb 09, 2023 10:25 IST Anuradha Bhasin, a veteran journalist based in Jammu, has given a moving account of the marginalisation of Kashmiri Muslims in her book A Dismantled State. Excerpts: The government sold the narrative that Article 370 was the root cause of terror and violence in Jammu and Kashmir. In the aftermath of August 2019, Kashmir …

Kashmiri Pandits meet Rahul Gandhi, brief him on targetted killings in valley
1 year, 11 months ago

Kashmiri Pandits meet Rahul Gandhi, brief him on targetted killings in valley

India Today  

During the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district on Monday, a Kashmiri migrant pandit delegation met Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and briefed him about the issues faced by them including "targeted killings" by terrorists and the resultant protest by those employed under a prime minister's package. Koul also said they have invited Rahul Gandhi to their Jagti …

Security forces killed 172 terrorists in 92 encounters in Valley in 2022: Kashmir Police
2 years ago

Security forces killed 172 terrorists in 92 encounters in Valley in 2022: Kashmir Police

India Today  

As we draw closer to the end of this year, the security forces in 2022 in Kashmir, to ensure peace in the region, neutralised 172 terrorists, including 42 foreign terrorists, by conducting 93 successful encounters across the valley, Kashmir Police said. Around 108 terrorists eliminated belonged mainly to Lashkar-e-Taiba and The Resistance Front, followed by Jaish e Mohammed, Hizbul-Mujahidin, Al-Badr …

Kashmiri Pandit staff petition tribunal over relocation issue
2 years ago

Kashmiri Pandit staff petition tribunal over relocation issue

The Hindu  

Amid growing differences between the J&K Lieutenant Governor and the BJP over the ongoing protests by Kashmiri Pandits in J&K, migrant Pandit employees, who were posted in Kashmir Valley under a special employment scheme, on Tuesday approached the Central Administrative Tribunal to strike down a clause that makes it mandatory for such Pandit employees to serve only in the Kashmir …

Kashmiri Pandit Employees Approach CAT Challenging Order Prohibiting Transfer from Valley
2 years ago

Kashmiri Pandit Employees Approach CAT Challenging Order Prohibiting Transfer from Valley

News 18  

Protesting Kashmiri Pandit employees have approached the Central Administrative Tribunal against a Jammu and Kashmir administration order stating those granted employment under the prime minister’s special package cannot be transferred. Kashmiri Pandit employees have been on a strike for over seven months to demand their “relocation” from the Valley in view of targeted killings by terrorists. The application filed by …

Life more important, shift Kashmiri Pandit employees to Jammu: Ghulam Nabi Azad
2 years ago

Life more important, shift Kashmiri Pandit employees to Jammu: Ghulam Nabi Azad

India Today  

Democratic Azad Party Chief and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Sunday questioned the safety of the Kashmiri Pandits and said that that the Kashmiri Pandit employees should be shifted to Jammu till the situation improves in Kashmir. They can come back once the situation normalizes,” said Ghulam Nabi Azad. He said that life is more …

J&K Politics: With No Pay Or Safe Abode, Will Kashmiri Pandits' Plight Ever End?
2 years ago

J&K Politics: With No Pay Or Safe Abode, Will Kashmiri Pandits' Plight Ever End?

The Quint  

There are around six such transit camps across Kashmir where these employees are living. Earlier this month, the issue of the safety of Pandits cropped up again after the militant group TRF issued a 'hit list' consisting of names of 57 employees working under the PM’s Package in Kashmir. These employees' names appeared in the blog ‘Kashmir Fight’ which has …

Discourse on Kashmiri Pandits must move beyond ‘The Kashmir Files’
2 years, 1 month ago

Discourse on Kashmiri Pandits must move beyond ‘The Kashmir Files’

Firstpost  

If the BJP is serious about addressing the issues faced by Kashmiri Pandits, it needs to think beyond The Kashmir Files so that there are no more files to be made in the future Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid’s remarks on The Kashmir Files, a film based on the persecution of Kashmiri Pandits by Islamists in Kashmir, at the 53rd edition …

Anand K. Sahay | Kashmir still plagued by undercurrents of crisis
2 years, 1 month ago

Anand K. Sahay | Kashmir still plagued by undercurrents of crisis

Deccan Chronicle  

Many Kashmiri Pandits who didn’t leave the Valley even in the high noon of terrorism in the early 1990s are now leaving, slowly. The killing of Pandits on a regular basis since 2021 -- with the government at a loss to understand what’s going on -- has taken its toll. When on August 5, 2019 the Narendra Modi government dropped …

10 Kashmiri Pandit families leave village days after killing of community member by terrorists
2 years, 2 months ago

10 Kashmiri Pandit families leave village days after killing of community member by terrorists

The Hindu  

As terrorists carried out a number of targeted killings recently, 10 Kashmiri Pandit families have left their village in Shopian district in south Kashmir out of fear and reached Jammu. The residents of Choudharygund said the recent terrorist attacks have triggered a fear psychosis among the Pandits who lived in Kashmir through the most difficult period of terrorism in 1990s …

10 Kashmiri Pandit families flee valley after recent targeted killing
2 years, 2 months ago

10 Kashmiri Pandit families flee valley after recent targeted killing

India Today  

As many as 10 Kashmiri Pandit families have fled from south Kashmir's Shopian after the recent targeted killing of Puran Krishan Bhat in the Chowdarygund area. Puran Krishan Bhat, a Kashmiri Pandit farmer, was shot dead by terrorists near his residence on October 15. "Ten families comprising 35 to 40 Kashmiri Pandits have migrated out of our village due to …

10 Kashmiri Pandit families leave Shopian village after terrorists kill community member
2 years, 2 months ago

10 Kashmiri Pandit families leave Shopian village after terrorists kill community member

India TV News  

Kashmiri Pandit news: As terrorists carried out a number of targeted killings recently, 10 Kashmiri Pandit families have left their village in Shopian district in south Kashmir out of fear and reached Jammu. Kashmiri Pandit Puran Krishan Bhat was gunned down by terrorists outside his ancestral house in Choudharygund village of Shopian district on October 15. "Ten families comprising 35 …

Murders most foul: The Hindu Editorial on recurring attacks on Kashmiri Pandits in J&K
2 years, 2 months ago

Murders most foul: The Hindu Editorial on recurring attacks on Kashmiri Pandits in J&K

The Hindu  

The dastardly murder of a Kashmiri Pandit farmer in Shopian in south Kashmir recently follows a series of attacks on the minority community in the Union Territory, with at least six Pandits having been killed in targeted attacks by militants this year. At one level, these attacks reflect the desperation of radical elements in the separatist current in the Valley, …

Kashmiri Pandits' Killings In 1990 : Supreme Court Allows NGO To Approach Centre Seeking Probe
2 years, 4 months ago

Kashmiri Pandits' Killings In 1990 : Supreme Court Allows NGO To Approach Centre Seeking Probe

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed an NGO named "We The Citizens" to approach the Union Government with a plea seeking probe into the targeted killings of Kashmiri Pandits and Sikhs in Jammu and Kashmir during 1990. He relied on the study in the book "Our Moon Has Blood Clots" by Rahul Pandita, which described the first-hand account of incident …

A dangerous drift in Kashmir
2 years, 4 months ago

A dangerous drift in Kashmir

The Hindu  

The policies and political projects being pursued by the BJP-led central government in Jammu and Kashmir post-August 5, 2019 — when the erstwhile State’s seven decades-long special constitutional position came to an end — have put unarmed and innocent civilians in the crosshairs of armed militants in Kashmir like never before. For many in the BJP, a cosmopolitan Kashmir may …

Killing fuels fresh wave of fear among minorities in Kashmir
2 years, 4 months ago

Killing fuels fresh wave of fear among minorities in Kashmir

The Hindu  

Militants shot dead a Kashmiri Pandit and injured another member of the community in an orchard in south Kashmir’s Shopian on Tuesday, once again sending shock waves among the members of the minority community in the Valley. With another deadly attack on Kashmiri Pandits in the Kashmir Valley, the terrorists have made it clear they are going to kill all …

Must leave or get killed: Kashmiri Pandits' body after series of attacks
2 years, 4 months ago

Must leave or get killed: Kashmiri Pandits' body after series of attacks

India Today  

Kashmiri Pandit Sangarsh Samiti, an organisation that represents the Pandits living in the Valley, on Tuesday asked community members to leave the valley in the wake of increased attacks on them by militants. "With another deadly attack on Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir, the terrorists have made it clear that they are going to kill all the Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir …

Kashmir Pandit shot dead, another one injured in militant attack in J&K’s Shopian
2 years, 4 months ago

Kashmir Pandit shot dead, another one injured in militant attack in J&K’s Shopian

The Hindu  

Militants shot dead a Kashmiri Pandit and injured another peerson in an orchard in south Kashmir’s Shopian on August 16, 2022, once again sending shock waves among the members of the minority community in the Valley. With another deadly attack on Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir Valley, the terrorists have made it clear they are going to kill all the Kashmiri …

Kashmiri Pandit Sangarsh Samiti asks all pandits to leave valley after another killing
2 years, 4 months ago

Kashmiri Pandit Sangarsh Samiti asks all pandits to leave valley after another killing

India TV News  

Highlights Sanjay Kumar Tickoo asked all members of minority community to leave Valley No Kashmiri Pandit is safe in Kashmir Valley, he said Statement also accuses govt for alleged failure to protect Kashmiri Pandit community Sanjay Kumar Tickoo, president of Kashmiri Pandit Sangarsh Samiti, a Srinagar-based organisation of local Pandits, on Tuesday asked all members of this minority community to …

'No Kashmiri Pandit left Kashmir Valley in 2022': Nityanand Rai
2 years, 5 months ago

'No Kashmiri Pandit left Kashmir Valley in 2022': Nityanand Rai

Op India  

Ministry of Home Affairs on Wednesday said no Kashmiri Pandit has left the Kashmir Valley in the year 2022. When asked about the details of the Kashmiri Pandits who left Kashmir Valley in 2022, Rai responded, “As per the records, no Kashmiri Pandit has left the Kashmir Valley during 2022.” The minister also provided data, noting that as of July …

No Kashmiri Pandit migrated from Kashmir ever since abrogation of Article 370: Govt tells Rajya Sabha
2 years, 5 months ago

No Kashmiri Pandit migrated from Kashmir ever since abrogation of Article 370: Govt tells Rajya Sabha

India TV News  

J&K News: Not a single Kashmiri Pandit has left the Kashmir valley ever since the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019, Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday. Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai also said that as many as 118 civilians, including five Kashmiri Pandits and 16 other Hindus and Sikhs, were killed in Jammu and Kashmir …

Kashmiri Pandits' Body Approaches High Court Seeking Relocation From Valley, Says Govt Failed To Protect Lives Of Religious Minorities
2 years, 6 months ago

Kashmiri Pandits' Body Approaches High Court Seeking Relocation From Valley, Says Govt Failed To Protect Lives Of Religious Minorities

Live Law  

The Kashmiri Pandit Sangarash Samiti, an organisation of Kashmiri Pandits, has moved a letter petition before the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court, stating that the religious minorities in the valley are under direct threat from terrorists and must be relocated to safer locations outside. The petitioners also allege that the Union Territory administration and the Central government failed …

Migrant Kashmiri Pandit employees continue to protest for relocation outside of Valley
2 years, 6 months ago

Migrant Kashmiri Pandit employees continue to protest for relocation outside of Valley

Firstpost  

The protesters assembled under the banner of ‘All Migrant Employees Association Kashmir’ outside the Jammu Press Club and said they reject the government’s proposal to relocate pandits in safe zones within the Valley Jammu: Hundreds of migrant Kashmiri pandit employees on Saturday staged another demonstration here urging Lieutenant Governor Manoj Singh-led administration to accept their demand to relocate them outside …

Will join duty only after Govt. gives written assurance: Kashmiri Pandits
2 years, 6 months ago

Will join duty only after Govt. gives written assurance: Kashmiri Pandits

The Hindu  

Kashmiri Pandit employees, recruited under the Prime Minister’s special package, on Monday asked the J&K Lieutenant Governor’s administration “to assure in writing that no Pandit will be killed in the future so that they could resume their duties”. We want our family and children to be secure,” Ajay, a Kashmiri Pandit employee and a member of the All Minority Employees’ …

Has India’s Kashmir policy under Modi failed?
2 years, 6 months ago

Has India’s Kashmir policy under Modi failed?

Al Jazeera  

With violence refusing to abate, the much-touted ‘muscular’ policy pursued by the BJP is not working, say experts, as they urge political engagement. The spiralling wave of violence has prompted critics to wonder whether the Modi government’s “muscular policy” towards the country’s only Muslim-majority region has failed. “This policy is not going to work in Kashmir, at the end they …

Why do militants in J&K only seem to target Pandits and non-locals?
2 years, 6 months ago

Why do militants in J&K only seem to target Pandits and non-locals?

The Hindu  

Published : Jun 12, 2022 18:00 IST A spate of killings rocked Kashmir in recent weeks, with terrorists waging a targeted and relentless attack on Kashmiri Pandits and some non-locals, marking a retreat to the ignominious days of 1990 when the Hindu community in the Valley fled to the safe haven of Jammu. He said: “Pandits returning to the Valley …

Kashmiri Pandits living on the edge
2 years, 6 months ago

Kashmiri Pandits living on the edge

The Hindu  

It is easy to spot from a distance the curtains drawn on the windows. Sharda was among the first educated Pandits to get a job under former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s package for the return and rehabilitation of Kashmir migrants in 2010. Around 50% of the 300 families living in the Sheikhpora colony have left to safer locations in Hindu-majority …

J&K government posts Kashmiri Pandit teachers to ‘safer zones’ within Kashmir Valley
2 years, 7 months ago

J&K government posts Kashmiri Pandit teachers to ‘safer zones’ within Kashmir Valley

The Hindu  

The Jammu & Kashmir administration has started posting Kashmiri Pandit teachers in government schools to “safer zones” in a bid to discourage their desire to leave the Kashmir valley following a string of targeted attacks by militants on members of the minority community that left nine people dead in the past one month. Srinagar’s Chief Education Officer has posted 177 …

Kashmiri Pandits flee Kashmir Valley
2 years, 7 months ago

Kashmiri Pandits flee Kashmir Valley

The Hindu  

Hundreds of fear-stricken Kashmiri Pandits left the Valley for Hindu-majority Jammu district on Friday even as the Centre turned down their demand of relocation. Amid this, a prominent Pandits’ body, the Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti, in an open letter to the J&K Chief Justice, sought his intervention to allow frightened Pandits to leave the Valley. Scores of vehicles, carrying Pandit …

Sena Backs Bhagwat's 'No Need to Find Shiv Ling in Every Mosque' Comment; Needles BJP on Kashmir Situation
2 years, 7 months ago

Sena Backs Bhagwat's 'No Need to Find Shiv Ling in Every Mosque' Comment; Needles BJP on Kashmir Situation

News 18  

The Shiv Sena on Friday supported RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s comment that there was no need to find a ‘Shiv Ling’ in every mosque and start a new dispute every day, and added that the focus should be instead on how to save the lives of Kashmiri Pandits. In a searing attack on the BJP-led Union government, Sena leader and …

No let-up in protests by Kashmiri Pandits trying to relocate from Kashmir Valley
2 years, 7 months ago

No let-up in protests by Kashmiri Pandits trying to relocate from Kashmir Valley

The Hindu  

There was no let-up in protests by Kashmiri Pandit employees, working in the Kashmir valley, on Thursday, as their bid to leave the transit colonies for Jammu was foiled by the administration. There is still a deadlock between the Lieutenant Governor’s administration and the demand of protesting Pandit employees over their relocation outside the Valley. We are sure that the …

Centre not for relocation of Kashmiri Pandits now
2 years, 7 months ago

Centre not for relocation of Kashmiri Pandits now

The Hindu  

The Centre is not in favour of moving Kashmiri Pandits and Hindus from the Kashmir Valley to Jammu as it would be a repeat of the situation in the 1990s when thousands migrated out of the Valley under government’s watch in wake of repeated threats and attacks, a senior government official said on Thursday. As targeted killing of civilians in …

Arvind Kejriwal demands adequate security for Kashmiri Pandits in Valley
2 years, 7 months ago

Arvind Kejriwal demands adequate security for Kashmiri Pandits in Valley

India Today  

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday demanded adequate security for Kashmiri Pandits in the wake of their targeted killings in the valley. The Delhi CM said, “Kashmiri Pandits are very distressed right now; all they want from the Centre is protection from terrorists. Kejriwal further said, “They went back and settled, but then the same thing is happening which …

Panic-stricken Kashmiri Pandit staffers firm on relocation from Kashmir Valley
2 years, 7 months ago

Panic-stricken Kashmiri Pandit staffers firm on relocation from Kashmir Valley

The Hindu  

The Jammu and Kashmir administration and protesting Kashmiri Pandits engaged in a face-off on Wednesday, as the security forces disallowed street protests and stopped fear-stricken Pandit employees, recruited under the Prime Minister’s Rehabilitation Package since 2008, from leaving the Valley. Kashmir has been witnessing daily protests by Kashmiri Pandits ever since Rahul Bhat, a Pandit government employee, was killed on …

Kashmiri Pandits employed under J&K govt to be moved to safer places
2 years, 7 months ago

Kashmiri Pandits employed under J&K govt to be moved to safer places

India TV News  

Highlights Kashmir Pandits in J&K employed under the PM Package will be moved to safer places The move will be in wake of recent targeted killings in the valley A dedicated cell has also been set up for resolving grievances related to minorities in Kashmir Kashmir Pandits employed under the PM Package — and other minority members of the Hindu …

Kashmiri Pandits are again being killed as they were in 1990s: Arvind Kejriwal
2 years, 7 months ago

Kashmiri Pandits are again being killed as they were in 1990s: Arvind Kejriwal

India TV News  

Highlights Kejriwal says Kashmiri Pandits are being targeted once again as they were in 1990s Kejriwal said no one is doing anything to stop it Same thing happening with Kashmiri Pandits now that happened with them in the 1990s, Delhi CM said Kashmiri Pandits are again being killed in Jammu and Kashmir as they were in the 1990s and no …

Kashmiri Pandits in J&K blame Narendra Modi government for targeted attacks
2 years, 7 months ago

Kashmiri Pandits in J&K blame Narendra Modi government for targeted attacks

The Hindu  

Published : May 29, 2022 06:00 IST When Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the podium in Samba on April 24, he enumerated to his rapt audience a slew of government measures, which, he said, would uplift Jammu and Kashmir’s young people from a life of despair and inadequacy. Modi’s first visit to Jammu and Kashmir following the abrogation of its …

Indian court sentences Kashmiri leader to life in prison
2 years, 7 months ago

Indian court sentences Kashmiri leader to life in prison

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — An Indian court sentenced a Kashmiri separatist leader to life in prison on Wednesday after declaring him guilty of terrorism and sedition, triggering a clash between protesters and police and a partial shutdown of businesses in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir. Mohammed Yasin Malik, 56, led the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, one of the first …

Targeted killings | Top officials urge Kashmiri Pandits to stay put
2 years, 7 months ago

Targeted killings | Top officials urge Kashmiri Pandits to stay put

The Hindu  

Top J&K officials, including Kashmir’s Divisional Commissioner and its Inspector General of Police, on Tuesday visited several transit camps of Kashmiri Pandits and advised the fear-struck community against migration from the Valley, in the wake of the killing of the Pandit employee, Rahul Bhat, on May 12. Within one year, fear will be completely eliminated and the militant numbers will …

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