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Nasir Aslam Wani, the advisor to Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, connected Saturday (June 13, 2026) called for the revival of the apex committee to oversee the instrumentality and rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits.
In 2009, the authorities successful the erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir, past besides headed by Mr. Abdullah, constituted the apex committee to oversee and facilitate the instrumentality and rehabilitation of displaced Kashmiri Pandits and show the implementation of the rehabilitation measures announced by the Centre.
The assemblage comprised authorities representatives and members of respective Kashmiri Pandit organisations.
Addressing an lawsuit organised by Kashmiri Pandits surviving overseas, Mr. Wani said the clip has travel for the revival of the committee that was disbanded successful 2014.
"This conclave is fine, but beyond it, we person to beryllium unneurotic and talk. Some representatives from your broadside and immoderate from our broadside volition person to speech to each different and find a mode (for the instrumentality of the Kashmiri Pandits). At the authorities level, I deliberation determination is simply a request to reconstruct the apex committee," Mr. Wani said.
He said the clip has travel to reconstruct the committee to germinate a roadmap for a harmless and dignified instrumentality of the Kashmiri Pandits to their homeland.
"The committee volition speech to your assemblage and instrumentality decisions," helium said, adding, "We volition attack the main curate arsenic good arsenic the lieutenant politician and soon, reconstitute this committee." The advisor to the Chief Minister said the eruption of militancy successful the vale successful 1990 impacted not conscionable Kashmiri Pandits, but Muslims arsenic well.
"The tempest of 1990 impacted all. It affected some the communities and the solution volition besides travel together," helium asserted.
Mr. Wani acknowledged that it is simply a world that determination is simply a conception of radical who does not privation peace.
"They were not with the determination of 1947 (Jammu and Kashmir's accession to India). But determination were radical similar america also. You cannot marque sweeping accusations against everyone. There are radical whose hearts utilized to bushed for you past and inactive bash now. This vale of saints is incomplete till Pandits return," helium said.
He said the authorities has tried astatine its ain level to bring backmost the Pandits.
"Whether it is the enactment connected rehabilitation, the Prime Minister's package, transit camps, impermanent accommodation oregon the apex committee, we tried our best. You cannot overgarment each of america with the aforesaid brush. There was a difference. Yes, mistakes were made by a fewer people, but attempts were besides made to rectify those mistakes. If you got pricked by a thorn, we besides felt that pain," helium said.
Mr. Wani said a blasted crippled cannot execute results.
"Whatever attempts we make, whether dialog oregon constituting committees, unless our Kashmiri Pandit brothers settee backmost successful the valley, everything is incomplete. We person to enactment unneurotic for that. Much clip has passed, and we cannot scope a solution if we proceed the blasted crippled adjacent today," helium said.
