New Delhi, March 27 : The All India Kashmiri Samaj (AIKS) on Sunday demanded a high-level Commission of inquiry under a retired Supreme Court Judge to probe and fix the responsibility for “ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Pandits (KPs) in Kashmir”. Organising an in-house community meeting here, AIKS released a vision document with several demands for the displaced members of the community. The demands include: restitution of Kashmiri Pandits (KPs) in the valley; minority status; physical space in the valley; minority reservation; hike in monthly cash assistance, among others. AIKS also demanded for setting up of a Home Ministry mandated consultative body consisting of the representatives from all the KPs organisations. ” Today we are meeting here with certain set of demands to the present government to set up a commission of Inquiry to fix the responsibility on people and let the perpetrators of the crime brought to the justice,” Dr Ramesh Rain, president, AIKS told UNI. “It is the moral responsibility of the present government to ensure justice to be done because the government of the day had put it in their agenda 2014 and 2019 as priority for the rehabilitation of the KPs and we are confident that the government must be thinking on the issue,” he added. Talking about, “The Kashmir Files, he said, “The movie give us an opportunity and infuse fresh energy, and the coming months are going to be very important for all of us to pursue all the pending demands and particularly the perpetrators of “Genocide” be brought to book and to punish them”. “This Kashmir files has give an effective and factual narrative of Kashmir Pandits to contest the manufactured Muslim atrocity narrative of the land,” he added. Raising concerns over the “Islamization” of the valley, he said Islamization is taking place in the Kashmir valley in a big way and it is the responsibility of Pandits to retrieve Kashmir from the clutches of Islamic terrorism. During the meeting, AIKS also urged Prime Minister and Home Minister to act on these demands and plan a time-bound return of Kashmir Pandits to the valley.
