Politics
Kashmiri Pandit Organisation Demands Separate Union Territory
- Panun Kashmir demand carving out a separate Union Territory for the community in the Valley and ask all-party delegation to not encourage soft separatists.
An Indian Kashmiri Pandit woman shouts slogans demanding a separate state of ‘Panun Kashmir’ as she takes part in a protest rally in New Delhi, 19 January 2006. (MANPREET ROMANA/AFP/Getty Images)
As an all-party delegation visited Jammu and Kashmir on 3 September, a renowned Kashmiri Pandit organisation called Panun Kashmir demanded carving out a separate Union Territory for the community in the Valley so that they could be permanently rehabilitated.
The organisation said that any alternative solution would be unacceptable to the Pandits. In the words of the convenor of Panun Kashmir, Agnishekhar,
Identifying Kashmir as an ‘ungoverned zone’, the organisation requested the delegation earnestly to reject any form of negotiation with the separatists. Agnishekhar said,
Cries for “azadi” in Kashmir, as demanded by the separatists, gave way to a movement which saw the eviction and ethnic cleansing of the Pandits from the Valley. So far little has been done to heal the wounds inflicted on them.
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