What
about the displaced Kashmiris settled outside the
valley?
We
are Indians first and Indians last. The demand for
a homeland should not be construed as an
expression of ethnic or regional chauvinism but
one of survival of a community with a distinct
culture. It gives us pride to see our members
settled in the rest of the country and
contributing their valuable services to the
country in various fields. They all harbour a
feeling of denial and deprivation and
discrimination in the valley because of which they
had to leave their Homeland. The grant of a
Homeland may not necessarily draw them back to the
valley but will not only provide them the
necessary moral and psychological courage but also
regain for them their lost identity. They will be
able to heIp and guide the floundering community
even from their respective places of adoption.
Many of them will be drawn back to their land of
birth. Infact, conditions shall have to be created
for a return of all those who are this time going
through the trauma and turpitude of finding a
ground for habitation elsewhere and all those who
have become nomadic in the process of seeking
shelter and survival. We have a fund of talent
especially in the educational, administrative and
scientific fields and we invoke the help and
blessings of so many of our compatriots who are
manning prestigious positions in the country and
who are wedded to the noble cause of a Homeland.
The
Homeland will provide opportunity and incentive
for the return of all the Kashmiri Pandits who
will difinitely have the legal and moral right of
settlement in this part of Kashmir, inspite of
them being settled in any other part of the world.
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