Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 13: Panun Kashmir (PK) held a meeting of it’s Political Affairs Committee (PAC) to take stock of the recent political military developments affecting our region and in particular it’s fallouts on the Kashmiri Pandit community.
The meeting was held under the chairmanship of the president P K, Virender Raina and the prominent persons who attended it included Kamal Bagati, Upinder Koul, Sameer Bhat, Ashok Chrungoo, P.K.Bhan, Kewal Krishen, Ravi Punjabi, Sameer Mattoo among others.
Virender Raina, while speaking on the occasion said that the return and rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir is a profound political issue and needs to be taken with seriousness that it deserves. He emphasised that the issue of the permanent return and rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits needs to be separated from the PM’s special employment package. The two issues are different. Employment package is meant for the economic sustenance of a section of our youth who had to volunteer to serve in the Valley because of the nature of the employment package, whereas permanent return and rehabilitation deals with the geo political aspirations of an entire community who had to leave Kashmir on account of genocide and ethnic cleansing. Raina said that the issue of return can not be taken in a perfunctory manner as Kashmiri Pandits have faced exodus, seven times in the past and this time we have to ensure that there is no refoulment.
Upinder Koul, general secretary PK said that the Government needs to take some serious confidence building measures before the discussions for the permanent rehabilitation of the KP community in Kashmir can start. The first and the foremost among them is the passage if the Temples and Shrines Bill for the protection and preservation of the more than 5000 years old symbols of the Sharda civilisation, he added.
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