Panun Kashmir rejects RTC joint statement of Centre

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Jammu, Apr 28 (UNI) Disassociating themselves from the recommendation of various working groups on Kashmir, Kashmiri Pandits today rejected the Joint Statement, adopted by the Union Government after the Third Roundtable Conference in new delhi.

Panun kashmir president dr ajay Chrangoo and convenor Dr Agnishekhar said Panun Kashmir could not accept the joint statement, in totality.

''it is humiliating to club the rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits with that of 'youth' who are presently undergoing arms training in terror camps of Pakistan,'' Dr Chrangoo told mediapersons at a press conference here.

Charging the Union Government with bending backwards to bring such youths back and rehabilitate them with jobs and financial incentive, he said that the pandit leadership forcefully made the point before the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that the perpetrators and the victims of terrorism were being treated with the ''same yardstick.'' The core issue of Kashmiri Pandits' exodus and to constitute a commission of enquiry to go into the reasons for the rise of fundamentalism, terrorism and armed insurgency and to fix responsibility for the genocide and exodus of pandits was completely ignored, Dr Chrangoo said.

Dr Agnishekhar said that the Pandit leadership made it very clear that the return, restitution and retention of Pandits as a concentrated group in kashmir is the ''litmus test of the will and sincerity of the Union Government as well as state government.'' Talking about the recommendations of working groups, Dr Agnishekhar said the Confidence Building Measure proposals (CBM) put forth by pandit leadership regarding jobs, economic package, encroachments, enhancement of cash relief to rs 8,000 and protection of religious and cultural heritage, although discussed in the RTC, were surprisingly ignored in the recommendations.

''The statement adopted at the end of the RTC was not only silent on the issues related to kps but vague about their return and rehabilitation and insulting in clubbing them with the perpetuators of terrorist violence against them,'' he said.

The Panun Kashmir leaders said the only thrust of RTC seemed to facilitate the dignified safe passage of militants and their rehabilitation. ''With a very sad heart, we were forced to announce our disassociation from the recommendations,'' they added.

Dr Agnishekhar said the recommendations when seen in totality appear to be bereft of a comprehensive vision for retrieving the situation on the ground, furthering national interest in the state and taking care of the victims of terrorism and communalism.

UNI

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