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

[Pawan Durani]

My apologies..... My whole days goes into $ conversion into INR ....I
got lost into that . It should have been 700 K.

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:16 AM, S. Jabbar <sonia.jabbar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you serious?  Please explain.  I am truly baffled.
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>> 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 !
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>> 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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