Govt Has Failed To Curb Militancy In J&K: Panun Kashmir

Aditya V Singh.

New Delhi/Jammu. Panun Kashmir, an organisation of Kashmiri Pandits, on Wednesday accused the government of failing to curb militancy in Jammu and Kashmir.

“We state it unambiguously that…the Government of India has failed to defeat militancy because it has relentlessly pursued a conscious policy of not recognising the religious nature of the war unleashed in Jammu and Kashmir,” Panun Kashmir chairman Ajay Chrungoo told reporters.

He referred to the killing of seven people in twin militant attacks in Dhangri village in Rajouri on January 1-2.

“We are all witness to a vicious policy of trivialisation of militant threat in Jammu and Kashmir,” he alleged.

The Panun Kashmir appealed to the Government of India to recognise that the primary targets of militant violence in Kashmir as well as Jammu are minorities.

He demanded relocation of Kashmiri Pandit employees posted in Kashmiri Valley to Jammu in view of threat from militants.

As assembly and parliamentary elections draw close, the vulnerability of soft targets in Jammu and Kashmir will increase immensely, he claimed.