Pandits first stakeholders to territory of Kashmir: PK

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, May 10: Panun Kashmir (PK) expressed its satisfaction over the stand taken by the Central Government that it will not hold any dialogue with the separatist elements in Jammu and Kashmir State.
Talking to reporters here, today president Panun Kashmir Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo along with its National spokesperson, Virender Raina, said it is for the first time in the last seven decades that the Government has taken such a categorical position in regard to the Kashmir issue.
Chrungoo said, moreover the statement of the Minister of State in the PMO, Dr. Jitendra Singh that Kashmir is a settled issue is also a statement of fact. In this context, it needs to be made clear that the only issue that needs settlement internally is the issue of the resettlement of the displaced Kashmiri Pandit community in Kashmir as per the geo-political aspirations of the community explicitly expressed in the Margdarshan Resolution of 1991.
The Kashmiri Pandits being the worst victims of Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism in Kashmir are also the primary and first stakeholders to the territory of Kashmir, he said, adding simultaneously, there is also the issue of the liberation of Pakistan occupied areas of Jammu and Kashmir State as per the 1994 unanimous resolution of the Indian Parliament.
He said the security scenario in the Kashmir valley demands application of both conventional and non-conventional methods. There is an urgent need to take tough decisions since the situation has ceased to be an ordinary law and order problem. There can’t be any compromise on the issue of the unity and integrity of the nation and the security related decisions have to necessarily divorce the compulsions of political expediency. “We expect the Government to translate its promises into action particularly with regard to the security and law and order situation in the Kashmir valley”, he added.
Virender Raina, national spokesperson-PK said that the stand taken by the Indian delegation headed by Mukul Rohatagi, the Attorney General of India at the Universal Periodic Review Working Group of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva is disappointing. The presentation of the delegation has not been up to the mark and has instead been apologetic. The delegation should have taken clue from the view expressed by the National Human Rights Commission and the Panun Kashmir in this regard well before the presentation of the official delegation.
He said the stand of Pakistan on Kashmir needed to have been blasted vehemently by putting facts and figures about the human rights violations perpetrated by the Pakistan sponsored terror groups in the Jammu and Kashmir State. Failure on this front speaks volumes about these official delegations’ jaunts abroad without thorough study and preparations about the sensitive subjects affecting the strategic national interests.

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