No solution except homeland acceptable to KPs: PK

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Apr 13: Voicing concern over the opposition to the Government’s move of a separate township for Kashmiri Pandits, Panun Kashmir today said no solution less than carving out a separate  “homeland” with Union Territory status in Valley is acceptable to Kashmiri Pandits.
“No solution less than homeland with Union Territory in Valley is acceptable to Kashmiri Hindus,” Panun Kashmir convenor Dr Agnishekhar and its chairman Dr Ajay Chrungoo told reporters here.
They said the creation of a Union Territory of Panun Kashmir on the North East of river Jhelum in Kashmir Valley for the rehabilitation of entire population of Kashmiri Hindus has become inevitable now.
“The creation of Panun Kashmir has become an imperative and historical necessity not only for Kashmiri Pandits but …(also) to stop Kashmir from becoming the new bastion for International terrorism and a sanctuary for Islamist terrorist enterprise,” they said.
Reacting to the opposition to the township for KPs, they said that the responses of the entire political class in Kashmir Valley to the issue of return of Kashmiri Hindus has brought it out glaringly that the spirit of secularism and coexistence is non-existent in its politics.
“The expressions of different segments of Kashmiri leadership, separatist and so called non-separatist, religious and so called moderate, reveal it unambiguously that there exists in Kashmir a milieu which is neither Kashmiri nor Indian but essentially fundamentalist and exclusivist in nature,” Dr Agnishekhar said.
Panun Kashmir calls upon all Indians to face the reality that in Kashmir the social and democratic space has been captured by a fundamentalist, totalitarian and religious monolith, he said.
Dr Agnishekhar said that the tone and tenor of his speech was only complimentary to what the likes of Ali Shah Geelani or Yasin Malik had said on the issue.
“The speech only reflected a disdain and lack of sensitivity with regard to the expulsion of Kashmiri Hindus from Kashmir,” he said.
“It also reflected in clear terms that the Government was aiming only at a tokenistic return without addressing any fundamental issue…,” Dr Agnishekhar said.
Hitting out at BJP, Dr Chrungoo said Panun Kashmir is stunned that the new dispensation of BJP in New Delhi has chosen to adopt such an approach on the issue of… Kashmiri Hindus and their return.
Senior PK leader O N Trisal, S K Handoo, O N Bhat and Sanjay MOza were present in the press conference.

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