“We have recently come across a number of statements from different Kashmir centric political representatives regarding the socio-political scenario pertaining to the exiled Kashmiri Pandits. The latest in this regard by the Shopian NC MLA, Shabir Ahmad Kullay is highly venomous and worth severe ridicule. It speaks about the mindset of the political leaders of Kashmir valley and also of the Muslim majority community about the indegenous people of Kashmir -the Kashmiri Pandits, after nearly four decades of forced exodus of the Pandits from Kashmir.
On the one hand, these political and religious figures day in and day out repeat their voices like ‘that Kashmir is incomplete without the Kashmiri Pandits’ and on the other hand they don’t skip any occasion to make violently blatant allegations against the displaced community. Their perpetual lies against the victims of Islamic terrorism and genocide in Kashmir are unabated. They need to be reminded about the days of 1990s when each and every mosque in Kashmir was used to ask the Pandits to ‘Raliv-Chaliv-Galiv’ tabaleegs and slogans.
The most common and popular slogans of that era included “Asi gachi Pakistan, Batav rostue Batnev saan”, ‘Yahan kya chalega-Nazame-Mustafa’, ‘Hamen chahiye Azadi, Azadi ka matlab kya: Lahillaye-Illallah’, ‘Aye Kafiro Aey zalimo: Kashmir hamara chod do’ etc etc. These people need to be reminded of their past blunders, crimes and sins time and again only to further assure them that the Kashmiri Pandits though living in exile, they are conscious of history and their role in future. They have vowed ‘neither to forget nor to forgive’.
Kashmiri Pandits and the other minorities have withstood the exile only to redeem their resolve and promise aimed at to once again thrive Kashmir and throng the sacred banks of Mata Vitasta (river Jehlum). Kashmir is in their soul and they have given birth to its ten thousand years old civilization and culture. Ethnic cleansing was thrust upon us when everyone during the 1990s showed us the road to exodus ‘for some time’.
Our hundreds of temples, shrines and other places of worship were burnt, destroyed and razed to the ground. Thirty thousand houses of Pandits were consigned to fire while those remaining were usurped and occupied. Distress sales were initiated only to take their posession in a pseudo-legal manner. All dispensations for the last four decades in the state ensured that the indegenous people of the valley of Kashmir, the Kashmiri Pandits, are forced to get delinked from Kashmir politically, culturally, socially and also mentally.
Kashmiri Pandits have vowed to return and resettle in Kashmir with the establishment of the Homeland as per Margdarshan-1991 in the valley for them. The other side of the coin demands demographic balancing in the entire valley since the Hindus of Kashmir have lost their faith completely in the majority community of Kashmir who all along played every card and tune to cleanse the valley of the ‘Kafirs’.
Moreover, the Kashmiri Pandits were made a victim of genocide only because that they were/are Hindus and form the core patriotic and nationalist community. History bears testimony to it and there is no need to explain it to anyone. The NC, PDP, Huriyat, Jamate-Islami and Awami Action Committee are parts of the same thinking and design to ensure Nizame-Mustafa directly and indirectly leaving no space for the non-Muslim minorities in the valley.
The statements of Farooq Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti, Umer Farooq-AAC and the latest of the Shopian MLA Kullay are enough a proof of the same idealogy of Muslim majoritarianism which is inherently communal in nature. We severely condemn these statements and reject them lock, stock and barrel”.
