Kashmiri Pandits and Non-Muslim migrant labourers in the crosshairs of TRF retaliation: KPSS
30/04/2025
Srinagar, April 30 (KIP )-The Kashmiri Pandit Sangarash Samiti (KPSS) is seriously concerned and pained to the core with the recent intelligence reports, published in national news portal “The New India Express”, suggesting an imminent danger to Kashmiri Pandits and non-Muslim migrant labourers in the Kashmir Valley.
KPSS in a press statement said that the news of The Resistance Front (TRF) orchestrating targeted retaliatory strikes — in the wake of the razing of nine terror-affiliated houses — is a spine-chilling reminder that the tiny religious minorities in Kashmir are forever hostages to the guns of both the State and non-State actors.
Statement further said that for thirty-five years, the Non-Migrant Kashmiri Pandit community has stood its ground — often defying death, discrimination, and deliberate exclusion — not as tourists or outsiders, but as legitimate stakeholders and indigenous inhabitants of this land. Yet today, the same community finds itself orphaned once again in the national conscience. Neither the so-called candle march brigades nor the trendy crusaders of human rights — who, as an aside, were all too quick to invoke us when it suited their storylines — have so much as lifted a finger or spoken a word to recognize this revived existential threat.
It is distressingly sad that in a time where selective outrage leads the headlines, our community's gradual eradication still fails to register and receive notice. Let it be amply understood — a callous attitude on the part of either the Union Government or the local administration is no longer an option. Prevention, protection, and proactive safeguarding measures are the only workable options left. This is not just about increased deployment of Quick Reaction Teams or increased security measures; this is about making our right to life, dignity, and presence on our own ancestral land non-negotiable.
KPSS unequivocally declares — if a single member of our community is harmed or targeted in this new cycle of coordinated terror, we will have no choice but to relocate from the Valley permanently. Let it be known to everyone — this silent aspiration of many in the society to vanish us from Kashmir behind the veil of candlelight demonstrations and empty rhetoric will not remain unchecked. The so-called activism, in such a situation, is nothing but a charade to protect the perpetrators of humanity, not its victims.
KPSS formally request the Government of India, the Union Territory government of Jammu & Kashmir, and all involved security agencies to immediately augment security cover around minority habitations and religious establishments;
Facilitate actionable intelligence sharing with ground-level community representatives;
Implement community-specific protection regimes, acknowledging the specific threat profile of Kashmiri Pandits and migrant non-Muslim workers;
Hold accountable any authority that shows negligence or indifference during this time of crisis.
Statement said that we are not negotiating for privilege; we are demanding the minimum — our right to live without terror.