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Kashmiri Pandits who were displaced from their homes successful the Valley person been touring the State to gauge if conditions are suitable for the community’s return.
On Monday (June 15, 2026), they called for “a structured signifier of engagement” and demanded a committee of enquiry aft “formal designation of the Kashmiri Pandit genocide arsenic portion of nationalist policy”.
“A week-long practice circuit and a two-day planetary conference, Pragaash (first airy of a dawn) successful Srinagar voiced a heavy yearning for a instrumentality to their homeland. Pragaash is not a solemnisation — it is simply a declaration. We walked connected our ain soil, visited our ain temples, and told the world: we are here, we shall return, and we volition not beryllium erased. This is simply a archetypal victory, but lone a archetypal one,” said Dr. Surinder Koul, caput of the Global Kashmiri Pandit Diaspora.
A fig of Pandit organisations passed a associated solution connected Monday aft the two-day conclave successful Srinagar. The groups that participated included the Global Kashmiri Pandit Diaspora (GKPD), Jammu Kashmir Vichar Manch (JKVM), US-based Kashmiri Overseas Association, Youth All India Kashmiri Samaj, Sanjeevani Shardha Kendra Kashmiri Pandits’ Association, Mumbai, and the AIl Minority Employees Association of Kashmir.
The associated solution called upon some the Centre and the Government of the Union Territory of J&K “to formalise assemblage engagement done authoritative mechanisms astatine the highest levels, with broad, representative, and accountable information of Kashmiri Pandits worldwide”.
It besides pressed for the ceremonial designation of the Kashmiri Pandit genocide successful nationalist argumentation and urged the constitution of an due committee of inquiry. “The word ‘genocide’ has progressively entered nationalist sermon and is present utilized by nationalist representatives and authorities officials. Delegates emphasised that designation indispensable determination beyond rhetoric and beryllium reflected successful authoritative policy, organization action, and humanities documentation,” it added.
It besides projected the constitution of the Kashmiri Pandits Welfare Board “anchored nether the Ministry of Home Affairs and the J&K Reorganisation Act framework, to coordinate welfare, housing, rehabilitation, and spot recovery”.
Pandits who stayed
The Pandit bodies besides referred to Pandits who stayed successful Kashmir and urged that they “receive welfare”, arsenic good arsenic those of employees moving nether the Prime Minister’s Special Package. “We demanded improvements to their security, housing, work conditions, household welfare, mobility, and intelligence well-being — recognising their resilience arsenic a instauration for the broader community’s eventual return”, said the associated resolution.
According to the resolution, astir 3.50 lakh assemblage members were “forced to fly the Kashmir Valley amid unit and persecution, scattering crossed Jammu, Delhi, and countries astir the world” successful 1989-1990.
These displaced Pandits besides demanded a township successful Srinagar’s Rainawari and urged the assemblage “to commencement greater concern successful Kashmir”.
Meanwhile, 2 organisations, Roots successful Kashmir and Youth for Panun Kashmir, distanced themselves from the conclave and termed it “an attempt to undermine the long-standing request for a abstracted homeland”.
