April 28, 2007
Kashmiri Hindus
Reject Recommendations of Round Table
Jammu
Displaced Kashmiri Hindus have rejected the recommendations of the
third round table conference on Jammu and Kashmir, posing a serious
question over effectiveness of the dialogue process for
consolidation of peace in the Valley.
For the first time in many years, the two factions of Panun Kashmir
(our own Kashmir), a leading organization of Kashmiri Pandits
(Hindus), held a joint press conference in Jammu Saturday and
denounced what they called pro-separatist tilt of the round table
conference.
Ajay Charngoo and Agnishekhar, leaders of the two factions of Panun
Kashmir, told newsmen that they rejected the equation of their
community with the Kashmiri youth, who have gone across the line of
control (LoC) for arms training. "What is the equation between the
two," Ajay Charngoo asked.
"We are the victims of violence, they are part of the persecutors.
How victims and militants can be treated alike," Agnishekhar asked.
Kashmiri Pandits are unhappy with the way the issue of their
migration has been neglected. They were furious that they have been
clubbed together with terrorists.
The working group on the confidence building measures had
recommended that the Kashmiri youth, who had gone across the LoC, be
rehabilitated and that the package should be the same as what the
government proposed for the return and rehabilitation of Kashmiri
Pandits.
Since 1989, more than 350,000 Kashmiri Pandits had fled the Valley
under the threat of persecution by Islamic militants.
There are about 3,000 Kashmiri youth who had gone across the border
for training in arms, but could not return. They had sent distress
calls. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had hinted at finding ways for
their return at the second round table conference held in Srinagar
in May last year.
Meanwhile, the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) too
has rejected the recommendations of the round table conference.
Party vice president Hariom has written to the prime minister
telling him that the conference was a monologue of separatist forces
and the BJP had nothing to do with it.
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