Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 30: The Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti (KPSS) is seriously concerned and pained to the core with the recent intelligence reports, suggesting an imminent danger to Kashmiri Pandits and non-Muslim migrant labourers in the Valley. The news of The Resistance Front (TRF) orchestrating targeted retaliatory strikes – in the wake of the razing of nine terror-affiliated houses – is a spine-chilling reminder that the tiny religious minorities in Kashmir are forever hostages to the guns of both the State and non-State actors.
Sanjay K Tickoo president KPSS said for 35 years, the non-migrant KP community has stood its ground – often defying death, discrimination, and deliberate exclusion – not as tourists or outsiders, but as legitimate stakeholders and indigenous inhabitants of this land. Yet today, the same community finds itself orphaned once again in the national conscience.
KPSS unequivocally declares – if a single member of our community is harmed or targeted in this new cycle of coordinated terror, we will have no choice but to relocate from the Valley permanently.
Tickoo appealed the Government of India, the Union Territory Government of Jammu & Kashmir, and all involved security agencies to immediately augment security cover around minority habitations and religious establishments, facilitate actionable intelligence sharing with ground-level community representatives, implement community-specific protection regimes, acknowledging the specific threat profile of Kashmiri Pandits and migrant non-Muslim workers, hold accountable any authority that shows negligence or indifference during this time of crisis.
He said “We are not negotiating for privilege; we are demanding the minimum – our right to live without terror”.
“The Kashmiri Pandit community has maintained the civilizational spirit of Kashmir for centuries. But if the State lets us down once again, history will note not only the silence of our oppressors but also the indifference of those Constitutionally bound to defend us”, Tickoo said.
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