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  Government wants to create special havens in certain parts of J&K: Syed Ali Shah Geelani Opposing any move to rehabilitate Kashmiri Pandits by creating protected settlements in the Valley, radical separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Wednesday claimed certain havens were being sought to be created in certain places in southern, central and northern Kashmir. “Pandits are a part of the Kashmir society and they will always be welcome in their motherland. But, let it be clear that any plan to settle them exclusively in protected colonies would be completely unacceptable to the separatist leadership and the people here,” Mr. Geelani said. The 86-year-old politician condemned the Narendra Modi government’s purported plans to permanently settle the Punjabi and other non-J&K refugees from Pakistan in the State and grant them the status of permanent residents. Source :  Hindu

For Prime Minister  Narendra Modi  rehabilitation of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) was not just an empty poll promise made in the heat of elections. Less than a week into office, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), under the guidance of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), has initiated an ambitious project to rehabilitate people who have become “refugees” in their own country. The project, which is still on the drawing board, will look at the rehabilitation of not just the Kashmiri Pandits but also refugees from Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) who came to India post-partition. Identifying the IDPs ” While they are citizens of India and vote for the general elections because they are not state subjects they are unable to vote in state elections in Jammu and Kashmir. The IDPs also include those who had to leave their home and there after each war between India and Pakistan and have still not been rehabilitated,” highly-placed sources in MHA said. ...

The evolution of political idiom and discourse is the direct outcome of the social, religious, economic and cultural experiences that a community comes across during a sufficient period of time. The comprehensive effect of all these experiences becomes more profound when the community is in exile in a country which it claims as its own and to which it bears its complete allegiance in terms of its civilisational moorings. The Kashmiri Pandit community falls in this category. More than two decades of exile have passed, as far as this community is concerned, in the history of the independent and post-colonial India. But the Indian state has failed miserably to protect the right to life, property, religion, culture and what not as far as this community is concerned. The reason being that the Indian state is guided by a policy premise — to keep the State of Jammu & Kashmir within the Indian union, it is necessary to compromise democratic and secular nat...

Srinagar (Jammu & Kashmir) : Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday said India should not have any dialogue with Pakistan on Kashmir since it is an integral part of this country. Swamy, who is here for the National Council meeting of Janata Party here, said the only "unfinished agenda" on Kashmir is to get back the part of the state which is under the occupation of Pakistan. "Let me make it clear that dialogue with Pakistan cannot resolve Kashmir issue. There should be no talks with Pakistan on Kashmir," Swamy told reporters here. Swamy also said there was a need for a new approach for resolution of problems faced by people of Kashmir. Asked about his party's stand on Article 370 of the Constitution granting special status to Kashmir, Swamy said the provision has been violated by militants by driving away Kashmiri Pandits from the valley. In reply to a question, Swamy said the BJP-led NDA will come to power in the next Lok ...