Sumeer Chrungoo President Kashmir Samiti

From the President's Desk June 2022, Koshur Samachar

Sumeer Chrungoo President Kashmir Samiti

 

Dear Community Members,

Namskar!!

Killing of Kashmiri Pandits and non Kashmiri Hindus, working in the valley. caused me pain of such a grave nature as 1 had experienced, only, in 1990 when most of members of my community were made to flee Kashmir. By indulging in such murders, terrorists wanted to send a message that KP. will be allowed to live no in Kashmir. Terrorists feel that their message has reached the victims. Hundreds of K.Ps, working in Kashmir, have resigned. Thousands of them have fled the valley.

The Government wants that K.Ps should not be transferred to places outside Kashmir and they should continue to live in the valley. Terrorists also want that as, otherwise, they will have no one whom they will murder. They consider K Ps, living in Kashmir, as goats ready to be sent to abattoirs to be butchered. When Kashmir is cleansed of K. Ps, more than 10,000 persons, enrolled by I.S.I., in Kashmir and Pakistan, will lose their jobs.

On the instructions of the I.S.I., killers of KPs have started working in a manner which is described as hybrid terrorism. In the older system, a number of killers used to launch an attack. In the hybrid system only one person shoots at a victim. After his shooting assignment is complete, he mixes with the masses and it is difficult to, later, to trace such a killer. So, the J&K administration and the intelligence agencies, too, will have to evolve new systems to deal such tactics. Recently, the Indian intelligence agencies succeeded in securing a list of the future victims. Before action could be taken to provide them security, names and addresses of the victims got leaked and it became difficult for such unfortunate persons to continue living in Kashmir.

Leaders of the so-called secular political parties of Kashmir, too, never say that terrorism is an undesired policy. They have developed a policy of showing sympathy with the families of the killed K. Ps, bur, they make no efforts to stop such killings. They did not do so when they were in power. They do not do now when their power is gone.

साहिल के तमाशाई, हर डूबने बाले पर,

अफसोस तो करते हैं, बचाया नहीं करते।

During the governance of such - तमाशाई leadership-hungry politicians terrorism flourished. Many members of the terrorist gangs got employed in police, administration and even in the inuniversity. Such anti-national persons did less governance or teaching work but provided more facilities to strengthen the terrorist structure. Altaf Hussain Pandit, Chemistry Professor, of Kashmir University has been sacked for terrorist liinks. He was an activist terrorist associated with JKF from 1990 to 1993 and was Executive Mmber of Kashmir University Teachers Association from 2015 and 2017 and its vice-resident from 2017 to 2018. He is alleged to have orchestrated student protests, including in the aftermath of killing of Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Burhand Wani, in 2016. He was one among the tens of hundreds of people who, despite acting prejudicially to the security of state, managed to enter the, public employment system because the system, itself, had become heavily contaminated. He had earned the moniker "Geelani of Kashmir University '' due to his sessionist agenda that included open demands for compliance of Hurriyat protest calendars by the university administration. He is among the 20-odd key elements who nourished the anti-India cartel in Kashmir University.

The target killing of Rahul Bhat, Amreen, Rajni Bala and bank manager Vijay Kumar have unnerved Kashmiri Pandits and Hindus working in the valley. These victims were murdered after the terrorists entered their offices and shot them in the presence of other office workeers there. The assassins came inside the offices, indulged in shooting and went back, yet no one stopped them from doing this. In the Prime Minister's Package, 5,900 employees are working in Kashmir. They are feeling insecure. Hundreds of them have resigned Eighty percent have fled the valley

The investigation, carried out by the National Investigation Agency, has brought to surface how the Kashmir-cenrist leaders carry three faces. When they are out of India, they hobnob with anti-India elements. When they come ro Delhi, they talk of nationalism, pluralism and secularism., When in Kashmir they, directly, or indirectly, support terrorism. The Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chief Yasin Malik was accorded respect by the Indian Government when he said that he will give up helping terrorists. Yet, he, never, said that terrorism was a bad act..

Yasin tried to raise his stature to that of Mahatma Gandhi by claiming that in the manner the Father of Nation expressed his opposition to violence, Malik, also did. Malik hid the fact that when some policemen were burned at Chauri Charia, in Bihar, Mahatma Gandhi called off the entire non cooperation movement. Opposed to this, Malik neither condemned the violence, nor withdrew his calendar of protest that led to further violence. The Mahatma was so opposed to violence - which is the bane of mainstream terrorism in Kashmir- that Gandhiji and Bhagat Singh became opponent political ideologists of each other.

The government had assured Malik a respectful treatment when he said he had given up terrorism,. Yet, he remained supplying funds to stone pelters and killers of Kashmiri Pandits. Malik's crimes were intended to strike at the heart of the idea of India and to forcefully get J&K secede from the Union of India. The crime was more serious because Malik was committing it with the assistance of foreign powers and designated terrorists. The seriousness of the crime was increased by the fact that it was committed behind the smokescreen of an alleged peaceful political movement.

Like Malik, other Kashmir-centrist leaders carry different faces which they show outside India, in Delhi and in Kashmir. In U.K. a resident, Axtell, has been sentenced to jail after he, inadvertently, recorded himself boasting about burglaries he had carried out. In Kashmir, some anti national persons, who announced on TV that they had killed Kashmiri Pandits, or raped their womenfolk, have been walking freely as respectable citizens.

The latest killing in Kashmir substantiates my suggestion that KPs can live in Kashmir peacefully only when they are provided a homeland in which the provisions of the Indian Constitution run in letter and spirit. Otherwise, for a long time to come, it will become difficult for Pandits to live in their 5,000-year-old motherland with a sense of security for their limb, life and honour of daughters.

Some anti-national citizens of Kashmir, sometimes talk of the protection of fundamental rights. They need to be reminded of the decision of the Supreme Court of India that only law abiding citizens should claim fundamental rights A bench of Justices Dinesh Maheshwari and Aniruddha Bose has ruled that any claim towards fundamental rights cannot be justifiably made without the person himself adhering to and submitting to the process of laws. In this regard a pragmatic suggestion has been made by a well known Black American leader. He says: Do not be violent to a non-violent person, nor non-violent to a violent person.

Kashmir has lost a music patron the like of which we will not have for centuries now.

'Saint of santoor' Bhajan Sopori has passed away.

A Padma Shri recipient who was also often referred to as 'the saint of santoor,' Sopori was diagnosed with colon cancer in June, last year.

Last month another virtuoso of the same instrument Shiv Kumar Sharma passed away following a heart attack. Suddenly, within a space of four weeks, santoor has lost two of its finest exponents.

Born in Srinagar, the immensely talented musician-composer Bhajan Sopori had his roots in north Kashmir's Sopore district. His family has been associated with the santoor for seven generations. Sopori gave his first public performance at the age of 10 after being trained by his grandfather SC Sopori and father Shambhoonath Sopori.

A recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 1993, Sopori contributed significantly to the evolution of the instrument and composed music for 'ghazals' written by Ghalib, Faiz and Firakh Gorakhpuri and the poetry of Kabir and Meera Bai. He performed in several countries such as England, USA, Egypt and Trinidad and Tobago.

I pray that Lord Mahaadeva grants him peace in swargaloka.

Courtesy:- Sumeer Chrungoo and June 2022 Koshur Samachar