Farooq Abdullah demands probe into Kashmiri Pandits' exodus; blames then-Guv Jagmohan

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Farooq Abdullah demands probe into Kashmiri Pandits' exodus; blames then-Guv Jagmohan

Last updated: August 2, 2020 19:58 IST

In a massive statement, former Jammu-Kashmir CM Farooq Abdullah, on Sunday, demanded a probe by retired Supreme Court judges into the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the valley in early 1990s. Addressing a webinar hosted by Jammu-based Epilogue News Network, Abdullah said that 'it was not Kashmiri Muslims who threw them out', blaming former Governor Jagmohan for the exodus - alleging that he "took them away" on the false promise of ensuring their return within three months. He maintained that 'Kashmir would never be complete till Hindu brethren come back and live there'.

He added, " We (National Conference) always believe that Kashmir is never going to be complete unless the Hindu brethren come back and live in peace with all of us". When asked if he would support a genocide bill demanding a separate homeland for the migrants, he said he would have to go into the details of the bill first.

The bill floated by Kashmiri Pandit organisation - Panun Kashmir, demands including permanent rehabilitation based on principles of non-refoulment. Among other things, the bill recommends the creation of a Board and a Commission to look into the aspects of cultural genocide and all the criminal aspects which include investigation, the procedure of trial, fixing of responsibility for the crime of genocide, punishment to the perpetrators and compensation to the victims.

What was the 1990 Kashmiri Pandits' exodus?

On 19 January 1990, Kashmiri Pandits were driven out of the Valley when a message was issued by terrorists over loudspeakers from mosques and on the streets - 'Convert to Islam, leave the land or die'. Amid massive panic, over 350,000 Pandits have escaped from the Valley in the next few months - March and April, while hundreds of Pandits were tortured, killed and raped. According to several Kashmiri scholars, the wave of exodus continued till 2000, leaving several Kashmiri Pandits languishing in refugee settlements, unable to return to their ancestral land.

Incidentally, Governor Jagmohan had arrived in Srinagar on January 19, 1990, to take charge. Several Kashmiri Muslims believe that he encouraged the Pandits to leave the Valley, while Hindus contest this view. While the Kashmiri Pandits rejoiced the revocation of Article 370 and Article 35 A done by the Centre, they are yet to return back. Currently, Kashmir is under COVID lockdown, with 4G internet services snapped and several politicians in house arrest.

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the bill recommends the creation of a Board and a Commission to look into the aspects of cultural genocide and all the criminal aspects which include investigation, the procedure of trial, fixing of responsibility for the crime of genocide, punishment to the perpetrators and compensation to the victims

I second thess demands.

 

[Hiptullha]

Relevant

During the armed rebellion of 1989, many Kashmiris who were believed to be supporting Indian rule in Kashmir were selectively killed. Several Kashmiri Pandits were also killed, mostly on allegations of being informers of the government. The first militant attack was on a Muslim police officer, Ali Muhammad Watali. The first militancy related civilian killing was also of a Muslim, Muhammad Yusuf Halwai, on 21 August 1989. He was an activist of National Conference.

Mir Mustafa, a former legislator, was kidnapped and killed on 21 March 1990. Professor Mushir-ul-Haq, VC of the University of Kashmir and Abdul Gani were kidnapped and killed on 6 April 1990. On 23 December 1990, senior politician Maulana Mohammad Sayeed Masoodi was gunned down. Some Kashmiri Pandits like Tika Lal Tapiloo of BJP, Neel Kant Ganjoo - a sessions judge who ordered the hanging of Maqbool Bhat, Lassa Koul – Director of Doordarshan Srinagar and Pushkar Nath – Assistant Director in the State Information Department — were also killed.

All these killings were political rather than communal in nature. The first militancy related abduction was also of a Muslim Kashmiri woman, Rubaiya Sayeed, who was later released in exchange of five jailed freedom fighters.

As per Anuradha Bhasin:

"Many of them (Kashmiri Pandits) were shot dead for their affiliation with the intelligence agencies or their role in the government decision- making. Kashmiri Pandits occupied a prominent place in government jobs and bureaucracy."

Recently, AS Dulat was the IB chief in Kashmir during the 90s also accepted that IB, in J&K, had a fair amount of Kashmiri Pandits.

“They sneaked in and out of all sorts of places and got the intelligence flowing… they rendered yeoman service to the nation."

And he also wrote:

ISI, itself being an intelligence agency and emboldended at having recently defeating mighty Soviet Union in Afghanistan knew exactly how key the IB was to the central government's hold on Kashmir; It told the militants to target IB. Most of our officers on the ground were Kashmiri Pandits who lived among the ordinary Kashmiri folks and they made for easy targets.

On 1 March 1990, Almost a million Kashmiris marched towards the Headquarters of UNMOGIP to handover a memorandum seeking freedom of Kashmir from the Indian rule. The demonstration continued for days without a break but not a single Pandit or his/her property was harmed.

"Our Community should not forget that those thousands who came out in the streets did not attack or vandalize even a Single Pandit home" - Vijay Bakaya (Prominent Pandit and former Chief Secretary J&K)

Rastriya Seva Dal, after visiting Jammu & Kashmir in April 1990, wrote in a report published by the Economic and Political Weekly that:

"The exodus of Hindu refugees is due to tremendous fears created by large rallies and angry demonstrations against the government by the majority community. The Muslims claim and the refugees agree that there were no communal incidents of burning or looting of the houses, misbehaviour with women etc. The refugees say they left their homes because they feared something of that kind will happen in future."

Anuradha Bhasin, in her book "Auditing the mainstream media: Case of Jammu and Kashmir" writes:

"Whether the Islamic sloganeering from mosques was widespread or this happened only in selected pockets, since there is no recorded document or media reports, the truth is likely to be a causality with imagination and prejudice clouding the real picture. But the moot question is: would the response be so uniform in event of one or even all mosques of the valley echoing Islamic slogans? Was there some underlying, unheard, unsaid, understood threat that motivated the Pandits to migrate in masses within just two days? Why in just two days the entire scenario changed? Why did 'Islamic' militarisation suddenly become threatening since killings were going on for months. The media obviously has done no homework."

Most of the Kashmiri Pandits were unaware of the Government's plan to shift them to Jammu or other places temporarily to pave a way for a massive crackdown on the Muslims. Here is how Kashmiri Muslims helped their brethren:

In the late 1989, when militancy surfaced in the valley, the Muslims in general, whether as a neighbour, friend, or a colleague asked their Pandit brothers not to leave homes and provided security for them. Many Muslims accommodated Pandit families in their homes to save them from militant attacks. There are instances when Muslim ladies, at the risk of their lives, stood at the door of Pandit houses, to stop militants from entering their houses. When in danger, They would also provide timely information to the Pandits so that they can flee to safety. - O.N. TRISSAL (KASHMIRI PANDIT: AT THE CROSS ROADS OF HISTORY)

In April 1990, Justice V. M. Tarkunde visited Kashmir and reported total communal harmony:

Hindus have received full cooperation from the local Muslims. The Muslims shared their rations and other items of day to day requirements with them. There is total communal harmony in Kashmir. Those people who had come out had either overreacted to the situation or had done so because of other reasons which could be winter, curfew, or closure of offices and educational institutions. Not a single case of looting or arson of non-Muslim property had taken place. - JUSTICE V.M TARKIJNDE, REPORT ON KASHMIR, APRIL 1990

All these statements prove that there were no blood-thirsty frenzied mobs on streets or in mosques who forced the Kashmiri Pandits to migrate. How would it have been possible? Kashmir was under curfew and shoot at sight orders were implemented on 17 January itself. According to testimony of a Kashmiri Pandit to HRW:

There is no dispute about the fact that Kashmiri Pandit community was made a scapegoat by Jagmohan, some self-styled leaders of our community and other vested interests.. .. The plan was to make Kashmiri Pandits migrate from the valley so that the mass uprising against occupational forces could be painted as a communal flare up... Some self-styled leaders begged the Pandits to migrate from the valley. We were told that our migration was very vital for preserving and protecting our 'Dharam' and the unity of India. We were told our migration would pave the way for realizing the dream of Akhand Bharat... We were fooled and we were more than willing to become fools. - A KASHMIRI PANDIT TO HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH (REPORT: KASHMIR UNDER SIEGE)

According to another prominent Pandit, KL Koul writing in Daily Al-Safa 18/9/1990:

In the first week of February 1990, a word was sent to the members of the Pandit community in Kashmir and they were asked to migrate to safer places. This message from Jagmohan was conveyed through some self-styled Pandit leaders. Pandits were told that the government had plans of killing about one lakh Muslim, particularly the youth, in order to crush the uprising. Pandits were assured that they would be looked after well, that that they would be provided free ration, free relief, jobs and free accommodation. Pandits were assured that once the Muslims were massacred they would be sent back. This is how Pandits left. [........]

"Pandits were assured by the government that once the proposed massacre of Muslims in Kashmir was completed and the movement curbed, they would be sent back to the valley. My community now understands that it was a very crude way of painting the mass uprising against India as nothing but a communal flare up. The Indian government tried to fool the world by depicting the uprising as a handiwork of Muslim Fundamentalists who had turned against non-Muslims and had thrown them out of their homes. I know my community has lost the affection, love, respect and goodwill of Kashmiri Muslims for having betrayed them. I feel ashamed to admit that my community has stabbed the Muslims in the back. This all happened at the insistence of Jagmohan. Some self-styled Pandit leaders exploited the situation and Pandits became refugees in their own land".

In this letterbusted this myth with photographic evidence and revealed that the BJP had misled people to score political points. Harinder Baweja visited 23 temples from the list provided by the BJP and found all of them safe and functioning. These temples, according to BJP, had been burnt and demolished.

One Pujari of Ganpatyar Temple, which the BJP claimed had been destroyed said that Puja had continued uninterrupted in the 200-year-old Hanuman temple. In many cases, Muslims have been taking care of temples since decades. In another instance, a Kashmiri Pandit, Maheshwar Nath told Baweja:

"Gita ki kasam, this temple has never been touched."

When Advani was confronted on this issue and accused of lying and distorting facts, he denied any such list existed. To be fair, Advani was still a modest liar when compared to current leadership of BJP who claim 50,000 Temples have been destroyed. Imagine, 50,000 temples for a total population of 1 lac something. That's 2 Pandits per temple.

Many non-Kashmiri Pujaris came from India and took over the temples here. These Pujaris started selling away various properties that the temples owned. In one case three Pujaris looked over 375 Kanals of temple land which they had rented to non-state-subjects, violating the A370. In another case, a lease holder, Kuldeep Narayan Jaggi sold the rented land illegally for 2.5 Crore. Even an ancient idol from the temple is missing. Some Kashmiri Pandits say assets worth Rs 500 Crore are already sold out. (Kashmir: Exposing the Myth behind the Narrative By Khalid Bashir Ahmad.)

Credits for this thread: @Kashmiriologyletter penned by prominent Kashmiri Pandits apologising for betraying their Muslim brethren and calling the exodus , ‘a drama’, enacted by BJP, RSS & Shiv Sena, ‘in connivance with the State administration’ & ‘the main characters were played by Advani, Vajpaee, Mufti & Jagmohan’ in order to wipe out Kashmir of Muslim youth and thus reduce Muslim majority into minority once old people die out with no young Muslims to take their place.

Of course none of it has stopped Indian media or state from doing their propaganda. This includes the recently released movie Shikara and the novel it is based on "Our Moon has blood clots" by Rahul Panditya who claims it to be a true account. Here's an open letter to Mr. Panditya, exposing the falsehood that he tries to pass off as facts and real experiences.

To all the Pandits trending "Hum Wapis Ayenge" on Twitter right now, Kashmir has only one question. Who is stopping you? Who has stopped you from returning so far? The same people who lured you out with the promises of sending you back as the majority.

 

[masterchief_mirza]

Kashmiri pundits have as much right to justice as anybody else. Delhi is incapable and/ or unwilling to dispense justice to any kashmiri, Hindu or Muslim. Rule of Kashmir from Islamabad, or a decentralised government under the protection of Islamabad, or complete independence remain the only viable solutions for the kashmiri people that will deliver justice to them and their cause.

Islamabad has delivered peace and prosperity to the Kashmir under its jurisdiction for 73 years. Delhi has not done this for the regions under its control - both during federal rule and during direct control.

Delhi's attempts at ethnic, religious or ethnoreligious demographic manipulation began in 1947 with the Dogra-led attacks on Muslims in Jammu. In the late 20th century, Delhi manipulated the kashmiri pundits as part of this ongoing strategy when it suited them. Genuine resistance forces attacked both nominal Muslims and nominal Hindus who colluded with Delhi because of their collusion (proven or perceived), not because of their faith.

Delhi now needs to enforce an information blackout, a military blockade, and a soldier:civ ratio of around 1:7 simply to maintain "peace" in occupied Kashmir.

The ethnoreligious manipulation continues with: dissolution of all viable forms of representative government by and for kashmiris, arbitrary detention of elected officials and civil societal figures/leadership, abrogation of 370 last year, and ordinances this year permitting non-natives the rights to settle on land in Kashmir, whether that land is sold legitimately, confiscated under legally debatable circumstances, or otherwise acquired. Jobs and land that were once protected will no longer be so. It remains to be seen whether these ordinances will be implemented to disenfranchise all kashmiris or just kashmiri Muslims. Either way, it constitutes and amounts to ethnoreligious discrimination and demographic manipulation or "cleansing". Either the kashmiri Muslims will lose out on their enshrined autonomy vis-a-vis constitutional rights since the moment of accession to Hindustan, or both kashmiri Muslims and kashmiri Hindus will lose out on the same.

By all reasonable and measurable accounts, Delhi has failed Kashmir and Kashmiris.

This is all there is to it.

Delhi needs to move on and busy itself elsewhere. The dream is over. Kashmir is already lost, except in the cabbaged brains of some miserable Gujarati bhakts who believe in some fantasised and fetishised version of "akhand Bharat".

 

[Kamikaze Pilot]

Farooq Abdullah calls for probe into exodus of Kashmiri Pandits

Replying to questions during a webinar, Abdullah said he was of the firm belief that Kashmir is incomplete without Kashmiri Pandits and that he would support any mechanism to bring them back honourably.

By: PTI | Jammu |
Published: August 2, 2020 7:34:02 pm

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah on Sunday demanded a probe by retired Supreme Court judges into the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the valley in early 1990s.

Replying to questions during a webinar, Abdullah said he was of the firm belief that Kashmir is incomplete without Kashmiri Pandits and that he would support any mechanism to bring them back honourably.

Nearly 60,000 Kashmiri Pandit families are registered as migrants after the onset of militancy in the Kashmir Valley in early 1990s.

Abdullah, a member of Lok Sabha and president of the National Conference, chose to blame then former Governor Jagmohan for the exodus and said that he “took them away” on the false promise of ensuring their return within three months.

During the webinar hosted by Jammu-based Epilogue News Network on the theme, “Discerning old order delineating new order-a year after neutralization of Article 370 and abrogation of Article 35 A”, Abdullah was asked whether he would support a genocide bill being floated by the Panun Kashmir, a Kashmiri Pandit organisation demanding a separate homeland for the migrants. He said he would have to go into the details of the bill first.

Abdullah, a three-time chief minister, said, “A sincere and honest judge of Supreme Court, retired judge of Supreme Court, a team of judges…let them investigate and come out with their report. It will clear many minds around the globe, among the younger Kashmiri Pandits, that it was not Kashmiri Muslims who threw them out. There are still many Kashmiri Pandits who never left and they are living here.”

The National Conference leader narrated many instances where Muslims had stood by the Pandit community since 1947 and said “do you think we were happy when they (Kashmiri Pandits) were taken away,” he said, adding “we always believe that Kashmir is never going to be complete unless the Hindu brethren come back and live in peace with all of us”.

Abdullah said he would continue to uphold his party’s ideology of treating all the people, irrespective of their religious belief, equally.

“My father never believed in two-nation theory. He never believed that Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists and all other religions are different. We believe all are the children of Adam and Eve. Everybody’s needs are the same and so he worked hard for unity. We will continue to stand on the same path and to my last breath, I will work for the unity of all,” he said.

In December last year, the Panun Kashmir adopted the Panun Kashmir Prevention of Genocide and Atrocities Bill, highlighting its various demands including permanent rehabilitation based on principles of non-refoulement.

Among other things, the bill recommends creation of a Board and a Commission to look into the aspects of cultural genocide and all the criminal aspects which include investigation, procedure of trial, fixing of responsibility for the crime of genocide, punishment to the perpetrators and compensation to the victims.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/indian...into-exodus-of-kashmiri-pandits-6535976/lite/

- PRTP GWD

 

[Pakistansdefender]

Farooq Abdullah demands probe into Kashmiri Pandits' exodus; blames then-Guv Jagmohan

Last updated: August 2, 2020 19:58 IST

In a massive statement, former Jammu-Kashmir CM Farooq Abdullah, on Sunday, demanded a probe by retired Supreme Court judges into the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the valley in early 1990s. Addressing a webinar hosted by Jammu-based Epilogue News Network, Abdullah said that 'it was not Kashmiri Muslims who threw them out', blaming former Governor Jagmohan for the exodus - alleging that he "took them away" on the false promise of ensuring their return within three months. He maintained that 'Kashmir would never be complete till Hindu brethren come back and live there'.

He added, " We (National Conference) always believe that Kashmir is never going to be complete unless the Hindu brethren come back and live in peace with all of us". When asked if he would support a genocide bill demanding a separate homeland for the migrants, he said he would have to go into the details of the bill first.

The bill floated by Kashmiri Pandit organisation - Panun Kashmir, demands including permanent rehabilitation based on principles of non-refoulment. Among other things, the bill recommends the creation of a Board and a Commission to look into the aspects of cultural genocide and all the criminal aspects which include investigation, the procedure of trial, fixing of responsibility for the crime of genocide, punishment to the perpetrators and compensation to the victims.

What was the 1990 Kashmiri Pandits' exodus?

On 19 January 1990, Kashmiri Pandits were driven out of the Valley when a message was issued by terrorists over loudspeakers from mosques and on the streets - 'Convert to Islam, leave the land or die'. Amid massive panic, over 350,000 Pandits have escaped from the Valley in the next few months - March and April, while hundreds of Pandits were tortured, killed and raped. According to several Kashmiri scholars, the wave of exodus continued till 2000, leaving several Kashmiri Pandits languishing in refugee settlements, unable to return to their ancestral land.

Incidentally, Governor Jagmohan had arrived in Srinagar on January 19, 1990, to take charge. Several Kashmiri Muslims believe that he encouraged the Pandits to leave the Valley, while Hindus contest this view. While the Kashmiri Pandits rejoiced the revocation of Article 370 and Article 35 A done by the Centre, they are yet to return back. Currently, Kashmir is under COVID lockdown, with 4G internet services snapped and several politicians in house arrest.

https://m.republicworld.com/india-n...-probe-into-1990-kashmiri-pandits-exodus.html

- PRTP GWD

How cleverly they twist the narrative and even trap these pathetic so called kahsmiri leadership into their trap.
Few thousand hindu settlers, migrants feom bihar and u.p settled in kashmir to do low level works such as gutter cleaning, garbage picking, or servants etc.
Who left or not. Which is history.
Now you can kill thousands of kashmiris.
And then the course of discussion is kahsmjr pandits who are non native hindus who might have returned or not etc.
Kashmir always has 98 percent muslim population so does kpk, balochistan, gilgit baltistan. Punjab prepartiton has 85 percent muslim Population but instead of division according to percentage it was divided half and half. It should nt be. Partiton would not be blooddy if whole punjab was given to pakistan.
And sindh has 93 percebt muslim population. And due to non partiton of the state the minorities thrive thrive there and still are 7 to 9 percent.
This is totally baseless lie.
This bastard should be questioning the degradation of kahsmiris or issuance of domicilies. But they do nit even issued a word. Cowards. They would be the ones to loose.
Even that mahbooba stick and yet not bowed down to modi.
But this father and son duo did with no campaign or anything

 

[Kamikaze Pilot]

How cleverly they twist the narrative and even trap these pathetic so called kahsmiri leadership into their trap.
Few thousand hindu settlers, migrants feom bihar and u.p settled in kashmir to do low level works such as gutter cleaning, garbage picking, or servants etc.
Who left or not. Which is history.
Now you can kill thousands of kashmiris.
And then the course of discussion is kahsmjr pandits who are non native hindus who might have returned or not etc.
Kashmir always has 98 percent muslim population so does kpk, balochistan, gilgit baltistan. Punjab prepartiton has 85 percent muslim Population but instead of division according to percentage it was divided half and half. It should nt be. Partiton would not be blooddy if whole punjab was given to pakistan.
And sindh has 93 percebt muslim population. And due to non partiton of the state the minorities thrive thrive there and still are 7 to 9 percent.
This is totally baseless lie.
This bastard should be questioning the degradation of kahsmiris or issuance of domicilies. But they do nit even issued a word. Cowards. They would be the ones to loose.
Even that mahbooba stick and yet not bowed down to modi.
But this father and son duo did with no campaign or anything

How about conducting mass DNA tests?

- PRTP GWD

 

[Kamikaze Pilot]

Delhi needs to move on and busy itself elsewhere. The dream is over. Kashmir is already lost, except in the cabbaged brains of some miserable Gujarati bhakts who believe in some fantasised and fetishised version of "akhand Bharat".

What do you get by saying exactly the opposite of what's happening? Peace of mind? Way of coping with reality?

- PRTP GWD

 

[masterchief_mirza]

What do you get by saying exactly the opposite of what's happening? Peace of mind? Way of coping with reality?

- PRTP GWD

Not sorry that my post bothers you.

If you wish to test my words, ask Kashmiris in IoK and in AZK if they agree or disagree.

 

[Kamikaze Pilot]

Not sorry that my post bothers you.

If you wish to test my words, ask Kashmiris in IoK and in AZK if they agree or disagree.

Kashmiriyon ke agreeing ya disagreeing se kya hota hai mamoo?

- PRTP GWD

 

[masterchief_mirza]

Kashmiriyon ke agreeing ya disagreeing se kya hota hai mamoo?

- PRTP GWD

It's quite simple - either Delhi has won the hearts and minds of kashmiris, or it hasn't. This much should be obvious, even to confused individuals such as your good self.

 

[Pakistansdefender]

How about conducting mass DNA tests?

- PRTP GWD

My dear friend.
My ancesstors may be hindu or buddhist 2000 years ago. They were something else before that.
All muslims in subcontinent are local muslims. Except for partition no migration ever took place. Their ancesstors may be buddhist, hindus, stone worshippers, fire worshippers, sun worshippers etc.
What is the point. I mean a white person who adopts and follow hinduism must not because his dna is not from indian subcontinent??

Please tell me which study links Dna with religion? That people of certain dna can have certain religion.
If i have similar dna that proves another one of your theory wrong that i am an invader.

You say that muslims are invaders.
Then you say muslims have same dna.
I mean wtf. How can an invader has a similar dna as you.
Whats the logic behind this.
In islam, someone who reverts back to islam is more special then a muslim born into islamic family because he found his faith instead of being born into it.
Didnt understand this bhakt knowledge.

So if everyone must revert back to 2000 or 3000 year old ancesstors dna then???
Why not revert back to the very first man on the earth then? What is the limit which century to we stop??
Besides india has never been a entity as it is today. Usually people dont marry inter states and pakistan states except punjab dont share culture, toungue, cloths in short anything with you.
Did you see any one of dravidian south indians race in pakistan???

 

[HAIDER]

Farooq Abdullah wants to stay relevant in Kashmir politics.