Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister OmarAbdullah today expressed regret that his government had notbeen successful in ensuring return of Kashmiri Pandits to the Valley, and vowed to regenerate a "sense of security" amongthem so that they willingly go back to their homes.

At a youth convention of displaced Kashmir Pandits, theChief Minister said "nobody can forcibly take you back to the Kashmir Valley", but "we (the people in the government) want to give you the sense of security."

"...you have left homes in lakhs. The return of 50 to 100people that too on employment, cannot be called as return. Wecannot pat our backs on that," Omar said, adding that "Kashmiris incomplete without Kashmiri Pandits".        "You (Kashmir Pandits) have been forced to leave the Kashmir Valley.

Nobody can deny it. You were snatched of thesense of security (in Kashmir). Nobody can forcibly take youback to the valley," Omar said at the convention of the Youth All India Kashmiri Samaj at Patta-Bohri in Jammu.

"...we can only give you a sense of security, and it is endeavour of me and my colleagues that we want to give you the sense of the security. But we have not been successful in this so far. The day I feel that I have done something with regard to it, I will feel I have the right for your honour of a traditional cap," he said.