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

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This is clearly a fringe view in the Valley. The Hizb hardly has any
presence left for its warnings to be taken seriously

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 9:44 AM, rashneek kher <rashneek at gmail.com> wrote:
>  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 exiled
> Kashmiri 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 Syed
> Salahuddin 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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