Army, AFSPA must for the security of state: PK

KPs will return to only separate Homeland in Kashmir

JAMMU, Feb 8: Panun Kashmir has expressed serious concern and pity over the opportunist statement of film actor Rahul Bhat in which he has trivialized the religious cleansing and suffering of the Kashmiri Pandit community while shooting for his film ‘Fitoor’ in Kashmir.

Expressing resentment and ridiculing the opportunist statement of the actor, Vijay Bhat, President, Panun Kashmir said, ”By saying that the Kashmiri Pandits have suffered less and Kashmiri Muslims more in Kashmir is not only unfortunate but falsification of the reality. He has equated the suffering of the victims of the 2014 floods in Kashmir with the religious cleansing of the Kashmiri Pandits in 1990. It is the comparison of the unequals. Kashmiri Pandits are not the victims of

natural calamities like earthquakes, floods and snow storms but the victims of man made calamity of communalism that subjected the community to holocaust and genocide in 1989-90.By comparing the two different situations he is acting as the fifth columnist and indulging in money making by trampling upon the religious cleansing of the Kashmiri Pandit genocide to earn easy money in terms of his film.

If he is so confident about the brotherhood and communal harmony in Kashmir now, why he is not operating from Kashmir full time as he has

said he is settled in Mumbai. And if that is so where was the communal harmony and secularism of the majority community of Kashmir when they

actively supported the religious cleansing of the Kashmiri Pandits and worked as the foot soldiers of the jihadi communalism.”

Lambasting Rahul Bhat he said,”His statement that the Kashmiri Pandits are well settled outside and for the Kashmiri Pandits to

settle in Kashmir and return on daily basis and return to their roots is futile exercise is far from the practical reality. If Kashmiri

Pandits are well settled outside then why are they people living in rented accommodations and refugee settlements like

Jagti,Purkhoo,Nagrota in Jammu and other parts of the country.It seems that he has turned blind eye to the reality and is living in a fools

paradise.

Moreover, he said that his statement is a double speak as the same person participated in the Panun Kashmir programme to celebrate the

anniversary of the Margdarshan Resolution and sensitise the masses about the atrocities committed by the jihadis of Kashmir on the KP

community. Kashmiri Pandits have declared time and again that they will return to their ancestral Homeland on their own conditions that

will guarantee the protection of their life and limb as envisaged in the Margdarshan resolution adopted by the KP community in

1991.Community is united for the cause of separate Homeland in Kashmir with the union territory status so that the pseudo secularism

of the Kashmiri Muslim majority community termed as “Kashmiriyat” does not act as the mask of communalism to persecute the Kashmiri

Pandit community again.”

Targeting the actor his statement regarding the removal of Army, Vijay Bhat said,”By asking for the removal of Army he is acting as

the spokesperson of the enemy camp and indulging in pleading the case of those who want the balkanization of the Indian nation.Armed forces

and security personnel are acting as the bulwark to blow into smithereens the evil designs of the jihadis and their mentors across

the border.The presence of the Army in the state is utmost important that too with full powers under AFSPA in the present scenario when the

Af-Pak region is in a very fluid state. Besides the Army commanders have made it abundantly clear that the state is in the cusp of the

balkanizing forces who are working overtime to disrupt the already fragile security atmosphere in the state.”