THE TRUE STORY 6

The Gale
 As a prelude to future, a rehearsal of events to come was enacted on
the  Hindus of village Wanpoh of Annantnag in Feb. 1986,by lootig their houses and their property,vandalising their temples and manhandling them. Meantime the recruitment of youth by inducement,allurement or jehadi setiments for sending them across the border for terrorist training continued unabated.If there was any resistance or dissent,it was summarily snuffed out to create a fear psychosis.The mission was to create NIZAM_I_MUSTAFA and eliminate kufur exhibited by the infidels ( kashmir pandits . Sikhs were not touched as otherwise pakistan could not support and sponsor sikh militancy in India)
By the middle of 1989, the fundamentalist infrastructure was complete and the next step of operation started.In July 1989 a bomb was hurled into a restaurant in Annantnag, owned by a pandit . The next step was to eliminate Pandit  leaders,intellectuals,writers,prominent lawyers,central govt .employees and opinion makers of the community ruthlessly in a systamatic manner to create a fear psychosis in them.The body of NILKANTH GANJOO senior judge killed in broad daylight in Harisingh high street ,Srinagar in full view of the people and was left by the bystanders as if he was a pariah.The same was the fate of TIKALAL TAPLOO ,a lawyer anda leader of B.J.P.in his own locality,of many others in all parts of the valley.No less than about 700 pandits,both men and women were killed deliberately by shooting,maiming and butchering ,disecting,torturing and bled to death or any perversion after sexual assault. It is a long list of inhuman torture and cruelty and trauma inflicted on the hapless community.
The news reached the rural areas and gripped by fear of the life and honour of their womenfolk and children ,started moving them individually towards the towns leaving behind their property, livestock,land and orchards ,and the males staying back. 

THE TRUE STORY 5.

THE BEGINNINGS OF DISQUIET
The seeds of communal feelings  were sown by MUSLIM CONFERENCE but it was kept under check by the personal interest and agenda of of the leaders of other groups.From 1965,however, a wave of fundamentalism created by Jamait Islami which spread out to urban and rural areas enveloping the entire valley. Madrassas and religious places were used by  jehadi  idealogues both as sanctuaries and indoctrination of young impressionable minds.The wave of Wahabi doctrine heavily enchroached on the Kashmiri Sufi traditions
in almost all the layers of the society ,gradually  gaining dominance in  

the younger generation abetted,aided and funded by the the extremist elements from across the borders, both from the civil and the military under a proper plan to create mayhem,disorder and subsequently a jehadi culture within the valley and destroy the age old sufi culture.
  The next step step towards armed resistance was taken in early 80's by recruiting indoctrinated local youth and sending them across the porous cease fire line, for arms,combat and saboteur training in camps openly organised by and in pak held kashmir,in wazirstan and even vicinity of lahore even though their existence has always been refuted by the authorities there.Conduits for flow of arms and ammunitions into hiding places in the valley and the '"caderisation"of militant stucture was put in place.The organisation and strategy was completed by the middle of 1989. 

TRUE STORY 4..

4.Gathering clouds
From 1947,the main agenda with pakistan was to annex the kashmir valley and other muslim dominated areas like doda,rajouri ,and other such adjascent areas.They tried it by force in 1947(tribal raid assisted  by pakistan regulars),in 1965(a war) and 1971(yet another war),but were repulsed every time.It was in the context of being defenceless in oct.1947 ,that kashmiri muslims under the leadership of sheikh abdullah agreed to facilitate the maharaja to accede to india.(what is not generally known that abdullah was convinced of better dealings with india after his earlier unofficial negotiating team of sadiq etc failed to get any concessions from pakistan's jinnah for acceding to Pakistan).As an aside after the signing of the instrument of accession between the union of india and the maharaja without any exceptions (as was done by all other states),india agreed to(though without any legal validity as a hold to the deed of accession) to a separate constitution ,governor,and prime minister and incorporated  Art.370 in the constitution of india.
In the meantime ,India filed a complaint in the United Nations in 1948 ,  blaming Pakistan as the agressor,little imagining machinations of the western countries and the Muslim world who equated the agressor and the victim.The speech of Zulfikar Bhutoo was not enough to rouse the Indian state.In 1971 after the war, there were 90000 Pakistani P.O.W.s in the Indian camps. India was in a vantage position to force a bargain deal. All they could manage was signing the Shimla Accord, which was invariably flouted by Pakistan.

THE TRUE STORY 3.

THE WATERSHED YEAR OF 1931
The relations between the local majority and minority in kashmir were cordial till 1931.It was in that year that MUSLIM CONFERENCE(M.C.)was started jointly by SHEIKH ABDULLAH and MIRWAIZ YUSUF SHAH) on a sectarian agenda and an agitation against the maharaja was sponsored by the party.When the ruler (through the aegis of N,GOPALASWAMY IYENGAR ,prime minister)tried to control the situation,the muslim mobs selectively vandalised and looted the hindu shops and business interests in the down town Srinagar in the  areaswhich are the centre of influence of present chief of HURRIAT,  MIRWAIZ  UMAR FAROOQ.
 Sheikh abdullah separated from M.C. in a bid for power and started the NATIONAL CONFERENCE(N.C.)in 1939., which became the vanguard for civil resistance against the Dogra rule. In 1946 ,the sheikh gave a call for an agitation againist the dogra ruler ,thus starting the'QUIT KASHMIR MOVEMENT' which became a very popular slogan with the masses catpaulting him to be the only leader of kashmir. 
In the intervening years , the muslim youth were rightly encouraged to get educated to compete for govt. jobs with the pandits ,a community which was 100% literate. From 1947,the Pandits had  to effectively and rightly make way for educated majority candidates and seek employment outside the state. The families got split due to this necessity resulting in gradual reduction of Pandit  population from more than 8%in 1947 to 4% in 1981(figures rounded & based on census),But the Pandits who left the valley upto 1989 maitained their roots in the valley and would always return to renew thier bonds with kith and kin and friends. But all this changed in 1990, when they were forced out of the valley due to terrorism fed on majority fanaticism and they left in a mass exodus to save their faith and honour .By 1991,their population in the valley was reduced to  was reduced to less than 0.1%. 

TRUE STORY 2

2. pandits in mid 20th  century.                                                     Pandit community retained its culture,traditions,folklore,devotional music,religiosity even in its worst times. Being pacific by nature is perhaps the main source of strength which helped them to survive till now even against heavy odds.Being highly literate  ,they were in demand  as babus and were mostly employed in Govt. or private service. They mostly lived in Srinagar and other towns of the valley .
 Only those who owned land holdings for agriculture and orchards lived in rural  areas and were completely dependent on the goodwill and cooperation of the majority for their existence. 

A FORGOTTEN COMMUNITY

I think it is time that the world wakes up now to address the problems of about 0.30
million kashmiri hindus who had to flee their homeland .Perhaps it is unaware, my
blogs will try to rememorise it for the world to know.

the true story of exodus of kashmiri pandits 1

  1.IDENTITY                                                                                                        The earliest recorded history of kashmir valley and its people can be
 traced to NILMAT PURAN and is exhaustive in its detail and the brahmins were the kashmiri pandits.The first real attempt has been Kalhan pandit'sRAJ TARANGNI written in 11th century  which covers the nilmat era to 1061 AD and the entire period to the present has been covered by different authors both local and non local in the language in vogue in that period i,e.sanskrit,persian,and english.It is a proven fact that kashmiri hindus had been residing in the valley since ages,though in course of various muslim invasions from 14th century onwards, most of the pandits were forcibly converted to islam and those who resisted fled to  distant areas to Chenab valley of jammu and some to indian cities away south from the valley.When the situation improved slightly, some of them returned . The descendants of these returnees  are the present kasmiri speaking kashmiri pandits