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Kashmiri Pandit employees holding placards as they raise slogans (ANI) State Investigation Unit of Jammu and Kashmir Police conducted raids
at multiple locations in Kupwara district in connection with a case regarding terrorist activities
ployed, how much money is paid to under their grandiose scheme of All in that area, on Thursday (ANI)
them by way of remuneration no- Out Operation or “Mob Neutraliza-
body knows nor does anybody keep tion”. anywhere in the political thought of certainly “sar tan se juda” in the lexi-
any account. How much money goes In the lexicon of the ruling elites Kashmir leadership or the Home cons of the militants.
into the pockets of the police offi- of India, the word minority is no less Ministry which runs the administra- Just on the 2nd of January, the
cial, bureaucrats, leaders and the than blasphemy. It is totally absent in tion of the UT. Therefore, today the news has come that the terrorists
handlers among the security forces the constitution, administrative log- citizens of Kashmir are religiously, attacked a Hindu village in Rajouri.
will never be known. This is how the books and in the very jurisprudence politically, socially and intellectually They entered the house of one Pri-
peace of the Kashmir rulers has been of the science of politics they adhere unipolar. Bipolarity or multipolarity tamnath, asked for his Aadhaar card,
restored. to. It does not exist anywhere in the is blasphemy to be punished by any- ascertained his identity and then
One parameter of peace accord- J&K Constitution; it does not exist thing short of death under law but gunned him down along with oth-
ing to the rulers of Kashmir is the er three and six other persons who
burgeoning number of tourists. Mind were seriously injured. The assailants
you, tourists have been coming even told them that they intend to cleanse
when militancy was at the peak and Rajouri of Hindu presence. When
also despite some fatalities of the interviewed by a newsman a mem-
tourists that did occur. Kashmiris ber of the targeted community said
know that even if a tourist is fleeced in public gaze “ Administration has
neither he will protest nor will the collapsed in Rajouri. We have been
government do him justice. After so- repeatedly asking the authorities to
journing in Kashmir for a few weeks, beef up security. We want the Lieu-
the Kashmir-euphoric tourist returns tenant Governor to come in person
to his home. Kashmiri people mean- and study the situation. We want
ing the general masses or the rabble government to give us arms for our
rousers never object to the visit of the self-protection.” The four dead bod-
tourist rather patronize them. ies are lying on the roadside and the
The rulers do not speak of what affected people refuse to cremate
treatment the locals mete out to the these until the Lieutenant Governor
Kashmiri Pandits who want to return appears.
to Kashmir and settle down perma- This is the “peace” by which this
nently here. They will not only speak Lieutenant Governor swears day in
not a word but will brush aside their and day out.
genocide and ethnic cleansing either K. N. Pandita is a Kashmiri scholar
as a phenomenon of history’s dy- in Persian and Central Asian Studies.
namics or the fault of the Pandits or Born in Jammu & Kashmir, Pandita
if nothing else bring the onus to the studied and worked at Panjab Universi-
doorstep of Governor Jagmohan. ty and the University of Tehran, taught
The Lieutenant Governor is
at the University of Kashmir, and was
right when he says that not only the former professor and director at the
Kashmiri Pandits have died, others Center of Central Asian Studies at the
have also died. He is perhaps stating University of Kashmir. A Padma Shri
the facts of history. The Pandits were awardee, he lives in Jammu.
killed and extirpated by the militants
and jihadists. The others of Lieu- Jammu and Kashmir Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Ravinder Raina visits to meet the Views expressed in the article are
tenant Governors description were victims of recent of the terror attacks at Dangri village of Rajouri, in Jammu on Thursday (ANI) personal and do not reflect the editorial
“neutralized” by the security forces opinion of The Indian Eye.

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