Jammu: Notwithstanding the Nadimarg massacre of 24 Pandits three weeks ago, Jammu
and Kashmir government has decided to have a fresh look at the action plan for the
return of Kashmiri Pandits forced out of the valley by militancy.
Revenue and Rehabilitation Minister Hakim Mohammad Yasin said, "We would review the
action plan of Kashmiri Pandits' return to the valley afresh after temporary setback
to government's initiative caused by the Nadimarg carnage, in which 24 Pandits were
killed on March 22."
Yasin, who supervised the action plan of return of Pandits to the valley, said, "The
process of return plan has been halted for sometime in view of terror create due to
the Nadimarg carnage."
The government will first re-build the confidence among the Pandit community, which
has been shattered due to the brutal act, he said.
"We have visited Pandit families in Anantnag and Budgam and asked the district
authorities to take confidence-building measures," Yasin added.
He said 32 families, who have migrated after Nadimarg carnage and are putting up in
Jammu, would be motivated for return to native places in the valley.
"If they do not return, then those Pandits would be registered and relief given to
them," the Minister said.
Yasin said some vested interests, which are against the return of peace to Kashmir,
were engineering such terror acts with sole aim of scuttling the plans for return of
Pandits.
PTI
