Successive govts used Kashmiri Pandits as tool to defame Kashmiri Muslims: Er Rasheed
Welcomes Kathua rape and murder verdict
Ganderbal: Successive central governments have used migrant Kashmiri Pandits as a “tool to defame Kashmiri Muslims and to justify their unrealistic Kashmir policy,” AIP Chief, Er Rasheed has said.
Rasheed said this while interacting with Kashmiri Pandits at Tulmulla in Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal on Monday on the occasion of Kheer Bhawani.
“Unless Kashmiri Pandits don’t show the proper will and intend to return to their native places, no packages can get them back to their native places,” Rasheed told them.
He said that Kashmir dispute “is a political dispute and from Geelani Sahib to every Kashmiri, the majority community treats Kashmiri Pandits as part and parcel of identity of Kashmir,” he added.
Rasheed urged the migrant Kashmiri Pandits not to treat majority community as their enemy.
He said the majority community had always welcomed return of migrant Pandits.
He told the Kashmiri Migrant Pandits not to forget the fact that the majority community in the valley “has suffered much during past 30 years and every Kashmiri cutting across religious, ethnic or regional affiliations must contribute for the resolution of Kashmir issue so that sustainable and durable peace is restored in the entire region”.
Rasheed also urged ten Indian media and political parties not to create “wedge between Kashmiri Pandits and the majority community”.
While Kashmiri Muslims “need to recognize the sufferings of Kashmiri Pandits”, Rasheed said “It is need of the hour that New Delhi gives up its agenda of using a small section of elite Kashmiri Pandits to defame the majority community and distort facts regarding Kashmir dispute”.
“Unless New Delhi too does not restrain from communalising the Kashmir issue, not much will change on the ground and the two communities may continue misunderstanding each other,” he warned.
In a statement, Rasheed also welcomed the verdict of the District and sessions court Pathankot, finding six out of seven accused as guilty in Rasana Rape and Murder case.
Rasheed said the court verdict was a “slap on those forces that tried their best to communalize the heinous crime and even disgraced the sanctity of National Flag to protect the criminals”.
He said the police officers who investigated the case “deserve appreciation as despite all negative propaganda and campaign they didn’t succumb to the pressure and discharged their professional duties in accordance with the law”.
“It is high time to take action against those who tried to polarize the situation in Jammu but people of Jammu rejected their inhuman and communal politics over a shameful incident,” Rasheed said.
He asked the government to file an appeal against the verdict seeking capital punishment for the guilty “as the nature of the crime demands so”.
KV News
