Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 14: “Although delayed yet Prime Minister Narendra Modi has put forth a crystal clear approach regarding dimensions of problems pertaining to Jammu and Kashmir for which families of 1947 displaced from PoK extend their gratitude to him” said Rajiv Chuni, Chairman, SOS International, an organization for PoK Displaced Persons while addressing a press conference here.
Chuni claimed that SOS International has urged so many times the Government of India to take up the issue of liberation of PoK with Pakistan, instead of Kashmir for which Pakistan has insisted India scores of times. “Regrettably Government has been keeping a deaf ear to the appeal of PoK refugees. Consequence of our Government’s toothless policies that Pakistan which has no constitutional or ethical right has been raising the Kashmir issue at every forum of the world”, he stated.
Mr Chuni said further that nobody has realized the pain and agony of PoK refugees who have been living their lives under utmost gloom and misery for the last seven decades. He said Prime Minister’s statement that there should be talks with the people of PoK is welcome step but displaced Hindus and Sikhs from PoK consider the said statement of Narendra Modi as deficient as he has stated to hold talks with people who live across the Line of Control. It is really heart-broken. “Why won’t there be talks with 12 lakh PoK refugees who lost their near ones, lost their moveable and immoveable property and left everything which is imperative for the survival of individual only to merge with India”, Chuni asked.
He further added that people with whom Modi is saying to hold talks are in fact citizens of Pakistan and not people of Jammu and Kashmir because Pakistan under a well knit plan has sent its own citizens to settle in PoK to change the demography of the area.
Others present on the occasion were Prof J S Mangal, Lalit Kumar, Roshan Lal, Prof N N Sharma, O P Khajuria, VK Dutta, Verinder Khajuria, Prof J P Gupta and Sanjeev Suri.
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