[Reader-list] Less than 3,500 Pandits left in Kashmir valley

[S. Jabbar]

Are you serious?  Please explain.  I am truly baffled.


> From: Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:14:44 +0530
> To: "S. Jabbar" <sonia.jabbar at gmail.com>
> Cc: Sarai <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Less than 3,500 Pandits left in Kashmir valley
> 
> Yes !
> 
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:13 AM, S. Jabbar <sonia.jabbar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 7 million?
>> 
>> 
>>> From: Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com>
>>> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:38:26 +0530
>>> To: reader-list <reader-list at sarai.net>
>>> Subject: [Reader-list] Less than 3,500 Pandits left in Kashmir valley
>>> 
>>> "A Seven million community reduced to three thousand by Jihadis &
>> Islamic
>>> fanatics"
>> 
>> http://sify.com/news/Less-than-3-500-Pandits-left-in-Kashmir-valley
>>> -news-National-kdxtabhbiji.html
>> 
>> 
>> Less than 3,500 Pandits left in Kashmir
>>> valley
>> 
>> 2010-03-23 19:00:00
>> A massive demographic change has taken place in
>>> Kashmir valley which
>> now has a mere 3,445 Kashmiri Pandits left as against
>>> more than
>> 380,000 in 1990, Jammu and Kashmir Revenue Minister Raman Bhalla
>>> said
>> Tuesday.
>> 
>> Making the disclosure in the state legislative assembly, the
>>> minister
>> said that 'only 808 families of Kashmiri Pandits were living in
>>> the
>> valley' and the total number of men, women and children of the
>> community
>>> there 'is 3,445'.
>> 
>> Bhalla said that most of the Kashmiri Pandits had fled the
>>> valley in
>> 1990 because of fear of militants. 'The killing of community
>>> members
>> led to a fear psychosis in the community,' he said, adding that
>>> 219
>> Kashmiri Pandits were killed in 1990.
>> 
>> Though the minister did not specify
>>> it, the number of the families
>> living in the valley included 31 families of
>>> Kashmiri Pandits living
>> in a protected zone in Sheikhpora in Budgam district
>>> and also the
>> officials working in the banks and central government departments
>>> and
>> organisations. Their exact number is however not known.
>> 
>> More than 350,000
>>> Kashmiri Pandits had fled the valley in 1990.
>> 
>> Those who stayed back, migrated
>>> after massacres of the community
>> members in Sangrampora in Budgam district in
>>> March 1997, Wandhama in
>> Ganderbal, near Srinagar, in January 1998 and Nadimarg
>>> in south
>> Kashmir in March 2003.
>> 
>> Kashmiri Pandits are now mostly living in
>>> Jammu and Udhampur within
>> the state, and in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and
>>> Maharashtra.
>> 
>> Bhalla, however, reiterated the state government's resolve to
>>> bring
>> the community back to the valley. He said that work is on to
>>> construct
>> the transit accommodation for them in the valley, where they would
>>> be
>> housed before their original properties are restored to them.
>> 
>> Prime
>>> Minister Manmohan Singh has announced a Rs.1,618 crore relief
>> and
>>> rehabilitation package for the return of the Kashmiri Pandits to
>> the 'land of
>>> their grandfathers and great grandfathers,' during his
>> visit to Jammu April
>>> 25, 2008.
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