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Prior to Advani-Hurriyat talks, Pandits to assess situation
New Delhi, Jan 18: Just six days ahead of talks between Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani and Hurriyat, leaders of various Kashmiri Pandit organisations will meet here today to assess its implications on the minority community.
New Delhi, Jan 18: Just six days ahead of talks between Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani and Hurriyat, leaders of various Kashmiri Pandit organisations will meet here today to assess its implications on the minority community.
The meeting, convened by Panun Kashmir, will aim at evolving a common strategy on future course of action with regard to the community, most of which was displaced from the Valley due to the onset of terrorism in 1989.
"The thrust of the intra-community dialogue will be on taking stock of the current scenario in the backdrop of upcoming talks between the Deputy Prime Minister and Hurriyat Conference leaders," Panun Kashmir general secretary Ramesh Manvati told here today. "Leaders of various organisations have been called to assess the implications that the talks would have on the community," he said.
The meeting will also deliberate on the Jammu and Kashmir government's "ill-designed, ill-conceived and untimely" attempts to "reverse forced exodus of the community", he said.
He said the community felt that time was not ripe for return of displaced people as the "same situation in which we had to leave continues to exist in the Valley." Attacking the "healing touch" policy of the Mufti Sayeed government as "it has ignored Kashmiri Pandits", Manvati said the meeting will also deliberate on this matter.
The meeting, coinciding with the 15th anniversary of 'exodus day', will be presided over by Panun Kashmir chairman Agnishekhar. Bureau Report
"The thrust of the intra-community dialogue will be on taking stock of the current scenario in the backdrop of upcoming talks between the Deputy Prime Minister and Hurriyat Conference leaders," Panun Kashmir general secretary Ramesh Manvati told here today. "Leaders of various organisations have been called to assess the implications that the talks would have on the community," he said.
The meeting will also deliberate on the Jammu and Kashmir government's "ill-designed, ill-conceived and untimely" attempts to "reverse forced exodus of the community", he said.
He said the community felt that time was not ripe for return of displaced people as the "same situation in which we had to leave continues to exist in the Valley." Attacking the "healing touch" policy of the Mufti Sayeed government as "it has ignored Kashmiri Pandits", Manvati said the meeting will also deliberate on this matter.
The meeting, coinciding with the 15th anniversary of 'exodus day', will be presided over by Panun Kashmir chairman Agnishekhar. Bureau Report