Panun Kashmir urges PM to call off Pak. visit

NEW DELHI, AUG. 5. The Panun Kashmir today termed the massacre of 17 people at Doda as unfortunate, and said that the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, should review the policy on Jammu and Kashmir and firmly assert India's protest against the incident with Pakistan. ``This incident is unfortunate, but it was expected.

The Lahore diplomacy brought us the Kargil incursion and the Agra summit the Doda killings,'' the Panun Kashmir convenor, Dr. Agnishekhar, said.

Dr. Agnishekhar urged the Prime Minister to call off the proposed visit to Pakistan, and said that the Doda massacre was yet another attempt at ethnic cleansing and Islamisation of the State, and the Government should send a clear message to Islamabad that cross-border terrorism would be dealt with sternly.

``The Government should make its stand clear that twelve years of violence is enough, and convey to Pakistan that we won't take it any more,'' he added.

Dr. Agnishekhar, on an all-India campaign, alleged that adequate security was not provided to Hindu families in Doda which resulted in the massacre and said the village defence committees were not equipped with sophisticated weapons to counter militants. Demanding immediate rehabilitation of Hindus in Doda, the convenor said, ``since the number of Hindus in this region is very small, they are soft targets for terrorists.

They should be rehabilitated at one place as a temporary measure for their security. As a permanent solution to this issue there should be a geo-political reorganisation of the State and a separate homeland, under the Indian Constitution,'' he added. He ridiculed the demand of the Hurriyat Conference to order an independent probe into the massacre, and said, ``the perpetrators of violence should condemn violence instead of asking for an inquiry. The separatist alliance should stop using violence as an open means to gain political aspirations. The conglomerate is just a political front for criminal activities.''

- UNI

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