[Reader-list] Kashmiri 'bandits' should .... return to their ancestral home - Washington declaration

[Pawan Durani]

Dear Shivam ,

I appreciate your curiosity.

Regarding the 16000 crore package , the finer things about the package is
not known to many people and most of the media just caught up with the
headlines. We may discuss the 16000 crore package sometime else.

When you quote that many Kashmiri hindu businessman spend 6 months in
Kashmir , i may not disagree that the few people do. I am sure you know the
percentage of Kashmiri Hindu businessmen . Kindly share it with rest of the
group. My idea is that it is less than 1%.So if less than 1% Kashmiri Hindus
visit Kashmir , where they are welcome as tourist but not as permanent
residents , that should not be a quoting figure for normalcy.

Also once bitten is twice shy , and Kashmiri Hindus have been bitten more
than 8 times in last 1000 years . This time the return has to be on terms of
Kashmiri Hindus.And one of the term is a separate homeland with a full flow
of Indian constitution.

For Kashmiri Hindus , the political reasons do not make any reason for their
non returning . They don't have a representative in assembly or the national
parliament. The reason has everything to what they had witnessed sometimes
back , which made them run away to save lives and honour.

Regards

Pawan Durani



On 7/17/08, Shivam Vij शिवम् विज् <mail at shivamvij.com> wrote:
>
> While a typo can be ignored, the question is worth asking: what prevents
> pandits from being 'faciliated' to return? Militancy has declined, nobody
> is
> holding a gun to Pandits' temples and quita  few happily (especially
> businessmen) are spending six months in the Valley and six in Delhi. But
> many. Why has the package of Rs. 16,000 crores been rejected? Do Pandits
> even want to reurn, considering 70% have sold their land back home? And why
> don't they want to return, considering they can buy land? Is it political
> reasons rather than safety? Is is that many non-Jammu migrants are well
> settled in Delhi, Pune, Bangalore, New York? Is it that returning would
> mean
> giving up the political uses of victimhood and let 'separatists' say,
> "Look,
> even the Pandits are back." I am not making these allegations but asking
> questions. Like all communities the Pandits are a divided community.
> Kshmendra Kaul does not represent them all. Everyone has different reasons
> and different circumstances.
>
> best
> shivam
>
>
> On 7/16/08, Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > A "International Kashmir Peace Conference" was held Washington D.C,
> > 14th-15th July. It adopted the "Washington Declaration".
> >
> > The website of "Association of Humanitarian Lawyers", one of the sponsors
> > of the Conference, furnishes the text of the "Declaration"
> >
> > Point 8 in it reads "The Conference calls for protection of all
> minorities.
> > All the displaced persons including Kashmiri bandits should be
> facilitated
> > to return to their ancestral home."
> >
> > http://www.humanlaw.org/kashmirstatement.html
> >
> > Did not know that "bandits" had been displaced out of Kashmir. At least
> > they are being called 'displaced' and not 'migrants'
> >
> > KK
> >
> >
> >
> >
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