[Reader-list] Stay Away,Pandits Told-Telegraph

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And we have a" journalist"  in Shivam who talks of secular India.!

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From: rashneek kher <rashneek at gmail.com>
Date: Monday, August 4, 2008 9:45 am
Subject: [Reader-list] Stay Away,Pandits Told-Telegraph
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>  Stay away, Pandits told
> OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
> 
> http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080804/jsp/nation/story_9643825.jsp
> 
> *Srinagar, Aug. 3:* Hizb-ul Mujahideen founder Ahsan Dar has 
> announced his
> return from Muzaffarabad to join the jihad, with a warning to the 
> exiledKashmiri Pandit community not to return home.
> 
> A CD containing his statement was distributed among some media 
> agencies in
> Kashmir. In it, he has asked the Pandits not to return to the 
> Valley unless
> New Delhi solves the Kashmir issue.
> 
> "I will advise Kashmiri Pandits not to take a foolish step to 
> return to the
> Valley. And those leaders who have sympathy with the Pandits' 
> return, leave
> Kashmir and stay with them in Jammu," Dar said.
> 
> Dar had founded the Hizb in 1989 but was dislodged a year later by 
> SyedSalahuddin and forced to set up a new militant group by the 
> name of Muslim
> Mujahideen.
> 
> He was arrested in the early 1990s and released after spending 
> several years
> behind bars.
> 
> "In the late 1990s, he left for Pakistan-occupied Kashmir again 
> and, if the
> reports about his return are true, then he is back in the Valley after
> around a decade," a police official said.
> 
> Dar had differences with the Jamat-e-Islami, which had then 
> declared the
> Hizb its militant wing. This led to his ouster and replacement by Syed
> Salahuddin. A teacher by profession, he belongs to the Pattan area 
> of south
> Kashmir.
> 
> "The Kashmir issue concerns 1.2 crore Muslims of the state and it 
> does not
> revolve around Kashmiri Pandits alone. Nobody talks of Muslim migrants
> living in Azad Kashmir and we believe when the issue of 1.2 crore 
> will be
> resolved, we can then think about Kashmiri Pandits," Dar said.
> 
> This is in marked contrast to the statement of other separatist 
> leaders who
> are encouraging Kashmiri Pandits to return.
> 
> Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in April set the stage for the 
> return of
> Kashmiri migrant Pandits to their homes and announced a package 
> estimated at
> Rs 1,600 crore, which included Rs 7.5 lakh for rebuilding houses,
> identifying land and providing the unemployed Pandit youths with jobs.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Rashneek Kher
> Wandhama Massacre-The Forgotten Human Tragedy
> http://www.kashmiris-in-exile.blogspot.com
> http://www.nietzschereborn.blogspot.com
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