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August 2, 2000
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Panun Kashmir calls for I-Day boycottT V Parasuram in Washington The Indo-American Kashmir Forum and the Panun Kashmir-USA have called upon Kashmiri Hindus and Sikhs, and Ladakhi Buddhists, not to participate in the official functions of Indian missions on Independence Day to protest the Indian government's policies towards Kashmiri minorities. "The disastrous policies towards the Kashmiri minorities over the years have reduced them from once thriving communities to destitute homeless refugees," Dr Jagan Kaul, senior vice-president of the forum, alleged in a statement. Demanding a self-governing union territory for the Kashmiri pandits in the valley and reorganisation of the state to give the status of full states to Jammu and Ladakh, he charged the government with remaining "indifferent" towards minorities and "designating victims of 'ethnic cleansing' in Kashmir as migrants. "After waiting for a decade, we have been forced to resort to this line of action. Our civic, human, political, economic and citizenship rights have not only been violated but altogether snatched, " he said, adding the past decade alone, a generation of exiled people has been lost, he said. PTI |
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