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National Conference president Farooq Abdullah connected Monday (January 19, 2026) said that displaced Kashmiri Pandits are ever invited to instrumentality to their homes, emphasising their rightful spot successful the Valley.
However, helium expressed scepticism astir whether the migrated assemblage would privation to travel back, considering they person built caller lives wherever they presently reside successful different parts of the country, with their children engaged successful employment and education.
The connection of the erstwhile Chief Minister came connected a time erstwhile the displaced assemblage is observing January 19 arsenic 'Holocaust Day' to people their exodus from the Valley successful 1990 owed to threats and killings by Pakistan-sponsored terrorists.
Talking to reporters connected the sidelines of a two-day enactment programme here, Mr. Abdullah noted that galore Kashmiri Pandit families ne'er near the Valley and proceed to unrecorded peacefully successful their villages and localities.
‘They should travel back’
"When volition they instrumentality (to Kashmir)? Who is stopping them? No 1 is preventing them. They should travel back, arsenic it is their home. Many Kashmiri Pandits are presently surviving successful the Valley and person not near their villages," the erstwhile main curate responded erstwhile asked astir protests by Kashmiri Pandits supporting their request for instrumentality and rehabilitation successful the Valley.
Hundreds of Kashmiri Pandits, nether the banner of 'Youth 4 Panun Kashmir,' blocked the Jammu-Srinagar nationalist road adjacent Jagti campy connected Sunday evening, demanding a abstracted homeland successful the Valley for their instrumentality and asking for the transition of a measure successful Parliament to recognise their genocide.
When asked astir the demands of the displaced Kashmiri Pandits, Abdullah remarked that helium had assured them that the authorities would conception houses for them and supply the indispensable support.
He added that aft the autumn of his government, it was successful the Central government's hands to instrumentality the proposal.
He noted that the assemblage would archetypal request to measure the situation, arsenic galore Kashmiri Pandits are present settled crossed antithetic parts of the country.
"They person grown older; galore are seeking aesculapian treatment, and their children are studying successful colleges, schools, and universities. They whitethorn visit, but I don't deliberation they volition instrumentality to unrecorded determination permanently," helium said.
