We'll cooperate with J&K to bring back displaced Pandit migrants: Hindu organisation

An organisation of Kashmiri Hindus today assured to extend its cooperation to Jammu and Kashmir government and the people of the valley in its initiative to bring back displaced migrants to the region.

"In achieving the object of the return of displaced Kashmiri Pandits to the valley, we extend total cooperation to the government," chairman of J&K Minority Forum (JKMF) PN Takoo told reporters in Jammu.

He said it is a matter of satisfaction that the Centre and the state government have started taking steps for the betterment of displaced Kashmiri Pandits.

"It is a welcome move to provide employment to over 1,700 Kashmiri Pandit youth in different parts of the valley," he said.

Since the central government has made up its mind for a political solution to Kashmir problem, the Kashmiri Pandits would like to know whether the community forms the part of the solution and if it does what are the contours and parameters of that solution, he said.

"We want to make it absolutely clear that we have to go back to our homes and it is for the government to make it possible," Takoo, who was accompanied by representatives of different religious trusts of Kashmir Valley, said.

However, the minority leader regretted that the state government has so far failed to take decisive action regarding protection and preservation of Hindu shrines and other religious places in Kashmir.

The forum will also urge the state government to constitute a welfare board for the displaced Kashmiri Pandit community on the pattern of other boards constituted in the state for Gujjars and Bakerwals, SCs/STs and other ethnic and minority communities in the state, Takoo said.