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Separate homeland for us with UT status: Pandits

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Posted online: Saturday , February 25, 2006 at 1417 hours IST

New Delhi, February 25:

Rejecting any role of Pakistan in Kashmir, Panun Kashmir, an organisation of displaced Kashmiri pundits, on Saturday demanded the creation of a "separate homeland" with a Union Territory status within Kashmir valley.

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The organisation, being represented by two factions at the round-table meeting being chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, said the group did not "accept any position, which tries to rationalise the claim of Pakistan on Kashmir or its locus standi to arbitrate the future of the Jammu and Kashmir state on the basis of its Muslim majority character."

A memorandum submitted by the organisation led by Ajay Chrungoo at the meeting said the centre should be aware of the "fatal consequences of recognising religious sub-nationalism as a method of sharing power in Jammu and Kashmir".

The memorandum, which was submitted at a round table conference with the Prime Minister at his residence on Saturday, further elucidated that this recognition was responsible for the emergence of politics of blackmail, secessionism, communalisation and fundamentalism.

Highlighting the plight of Kashmiri pundits, who migrated to other parts of the country after the onset of militancy in Kashmir, it favoured implementation of the organisation's 1991 "margadarshan resolution" under which a separate homeland was carved out in Kashmir valley for pundits and the area was accorded a Union Territory status.

"Any weakening of India's position in Jammu and Kashmir, even if symbolic, will lead to breaking out of Jehad in Himalayas," it warned.

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