Posters threatening Kashmiri Pandits and Hindus to leave the Valley have come up, almost overnight, near the transit accommodations for government employees in south Kashmir¡¯s Pulwama district.?The posters have been made on the letterhead of Lashkar-e-Islam (Army of Islam), which is interestingly a competitor of Hizbul Mujahideen, to whom terrorist Burhan Wani had sworn allegiance.
¡°No space for Kashmiri Pandits who want another Israel in Kashmir to kill Kashmiri Muslim,¡± The poster has gone viral after it was shared on micro blogging site twitter by Panun Kashmir leader and film maker Ashok Pandit as ¡°message for all the pseudo liberals, white-collared terrorists & other pimps of terrorists.¡±
Superintendent of Police Rayees Mohammad Bhat said that miscreants could have caused it, to create fear among the minority Hindu community, as the Lashkar-e-Islam has no presence in South Kashmir. ?However, Kashmir Pandit families, as well as government employees had sought to migrate to Jammu or out of J&K - they haven't forgotten the ghost of the 1990s, when "mosques issued declarations that the Kashmiri Pandits were Kafirs and that the males had to leave Kashmir, convert to Islam or be killed...to leave their women behind..."
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Recently, a hitherto unheard organization, which calls itself ?'Sangbaaz Association Jammu and Kashmir, Azad Kashmir' has issued a 'Taliban-style' diktat against women and shopkeepers in the valley. The chilling warning, issued through posters threatens the Kashmiri girls of death if they would be seen driving their two-wheelers on the streets.?
¡°We request all girls, please do not use Scooty. If we see any girl who rides Scooty, we will burn the Scooty as well as the girl.¡± Issuing a 'last warning' against shops, banks and commercial establishments against opening them "till the end of this fight." This is for the first time, the fringe group otherwise only know for stone-pelting at Indian army during protests have come out with such a stern warning.
One narrative has put the blame on the Indian army. However a recent report reveals that it is separatists who are extending a shutdown of Kashmir in the name of protests ¨C and have even ¡°warned police officers and bureaucrats by naming them¡±
Mosques here are blaring anti-India slogans, asking youth to join insurgency.
In Jammu, various Kashmiri Hindu organisations came together to protest against the violence the Kashmiri Pandit community faces. ?"The Government of India and state government has failed to protect displaced Kashmiri Hindu employees from mob attacks and fear psychosis due to mob attacks, triggering their second migrant from valley. The government has failed to stop this migration", All Party Migrant Coordination Committee (APMCC) Chairman Vinood Pandita said.
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