Global Conclave or Mere Symbolism?
The Victim Kashmiri Pandit Community Seeks Answers:KPC
15/06/2026
New De3lhi, June 15 (KIP)-The recently concluded Global Kashmiri Pandit Conclave in Kashmir has been projected as a historic success through extensive media coverage, publicity campaigns, speeches, and celebrations.
While the Kashmiri Pandit community wholeheartedly supports every genuine effort aimed at preserving its heritage, strengthening community bonds, and reconnecting with its roots, but it is compelled to ask some simple but fundamental questions.
What tangible benefit has this conclave delivered to the thousands of Kashmiri Pandit families who have been living in exile for the last 36 years?
Has justice been delivered? Has rehabilitation been secured? Has any credible, practical, and time-bound roadmap for the return of displaced Kashmiri Pandits been announced? Have the painful issues of displacement, dispossession, insecurity, neglect, and loss of identity been meaningfully addressed?
Kundan Kashmiri, President, Kashmiri Pandit Conference (KPC), stated that the community deserves clear and honest answers from the organizers of the conclave.
"Has even one displaced Kashmiri Pandit family been rehabilitated as a result of this conclave? Has any definite plan been announced for the safe, dignified, and sustainable return of Kashmiri Pandits to their ancestral land, the sacred Kashyap Bhoomi? What progress has been achieved regarding justice for the killings, massacres, threats, forced displacement, encroachment of properties, and large-scale destruction suffered by the community?"
Kundan Kashmiri,Senior KP leader, further asked whether reconciliation can be meaningful without truth, accountability, and justice.?
He questioned whether migrant camp residents, relief holders, widows, unemployed youth, and struggling displaced families were genuinely represented at the conclave, or whether the platform remained confined to a privileged and select section of the community.
"Can cultural visits and emotional reconnects be projected as rehabilitation while the core issues of security, housing, employment, political representation, and the long-term survival of the community remain unresolved?" he asked.
The KPC President also questioned whether the Government has committed itself to a comprehensive, secure, community-approved, "one-place" rehabilitation mechanism for displaced Kashmiri Pandits. If not, what exactly has been achieved beyond speeches, publicity, and symbolic gestures?
Most importantly, KPC demands that the organizers place before the community a detailed public report outlining:
• Resolutions adopted during the conclave
• Commitments secured from the Government and other stakeholders
• Timelines promised for implementation
• Mechanisms established for monitoring progress and accountability.
Senior KP leader, Kundan Kashmiri emphasized that the Kashmiri Pandit community has every right to seek answers. Asking questions is not opposition; it is a responsibility towards a community that has endured exile, injustice, discrimination, and neglect for more than three decades.
"The emotional and civilizational bond of Kashmiri Pandits with Kashmir is eternal. No conclave can create it, and no exile can erase it. However, a conclave cannot be declared successful merely because it has been organized and publicized. Success must be measured by concrete outcomes and meaningful progress towards justice and rehabilitation."
he further stated:
"Our struggle will end only when every displaced Kashmiri Pandit family receives justice, security, dignity, and honourable rehabilitation in its ancestral Kashyap Bhoomi with full constitutional safeguards and without fear. Until then, symbolism cannot replace substance, publicity cannot replace action, and celebrations cannot replace accountability."
KPC senior leader Tej Pandita , MK Raina, Susheel Ji Bhat also stated that the victimized Kashmiri Pandit community seeks neither applause nor slogans. It seeks justice, rehabilitation, security, political empowerment, and a dignified future.
The community now awaits honest, transparent, and accountable answers from the organizers of the Global Kashmiri Pandit Conclave. In their absence, many will inevitably view the event as yet another symbolic exercise rather than a meaningful step towards resolving the long-pending issues of the displaced Kashmiri Pandit community.
Besides Kundan Kashmiri, President of the organization, other KPC leaders and community stalwarts who have expressed similar concerns include Shri Tej Pandita, Shri M. K. Raina, Shri Susheel Bhat, Dr. H. L. Saraf, Shri Suraj Wali, and several others.