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KP property: KEA fears ‘conspiracy’ to create wedge between Kashmiri Muslims, Pandiths
Srinagar, Feb 1: (UNI) Reacting to reports that the Governor administration has been directed to explore possibilities of declaring sales of all the properties, movable and immovable, made by the Kashmiri Pandits after 1989-90 as null and void, Kashmir Economic Alliance (KEA) said it is a conspiracy to create wedge between Kashmiri Pandiths and Muslims.
These directions and recommendations were reportedly made by an empowered parliamentary standing committee on home affairs in its 137th report.
“We can understand the pain of Pandith brethren but the government wants to further distance them from homeland Kashmir through such conspiracies which are unlawful and unethical,” KEA chairperson Muhammad Yasin Khan said in a statement issued here on Friday.
Mr Khan, who also heads Kashmir Traders and Manufacturers Federation (KTMF), said the properties as sold by the Kashmiri Pandiths since 1990 were not done through any unfair means but in accordance with the law of the land.
“The properties were sold as part of legal process duly endorsed in the courts. How can a legal procedure of deal be declared illegal,” he questioned.
Mr Khan said there is a difference between buying a property through a legal pact and grabbing it illegally. “Government is trying to give a notion that such properties were grabbed through legal deals and that is highly condemnable,” he said.
“When there was a need to make return of Kashmiri Pandiths possible through restoration of peace and harmony, such conspiracies would only deter the expectations on this front,” he added
Mr Khan appealed the political parties and civil society to rise to the occasion.