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30–80 Kashmiri Pandits had been killed by insurgents by mid-year 1990 when the exodus was largely complete, according to several scholars. [ 7 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Indian Home Ministry data records 217 Hindus civilians fatalities during the four-year period, 1988 to 1991; [ 14 ] another scholar estimates 228 Pandit civilian fatalities. [ 15 ]
2003 Nadimarg massacre was the killing of 24 Kashmiri Pandits in the village of Nadimarg in Pulwama District of Jammu and Kashmir on 23 March 2003. The Government of India blamed militants from the Pakistan-based terrorist group, Lashkar-e-Taiba but failed to secure convictions.
The Kashmiri Pandits (also known as Kashmiri Brahmins) [7] are a group of Kashmiri Hindus and a part of the larger Saraswat Brahmin community of India. They belong to the Pancha Gauda Brahmin group [ 8 ] from the Kashmir Valley , [ 9 ] [ 10 ] located within the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir .
According to officials, 98,600 Kashmiri Hindus were issued domicile certificates of Jammu and Kashmir up to the end of June 2021. They further state, "90,430 domicile certificates were issued to displaced Kashmiri Pandits, while 2,340 families of displaced Kashmiri Pandits were registered as fresh migrants.
[122] [123] Motilal Bhat, the president of the Pandit Hindu Welfare Society, rejected the figure of 399 killed and said that only 219 were killed. [124] Kashmiri separatists believe that the then Governor Jagmohan encouraged the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley by deliberately creating an atmosphere of paranoia. This, they claim, was ...
Yasin Malik (born 3 April 1966) is a Kashmiri separatist leader and former militant who advocates the separation of Kashmir from both India and Pakistan. [2] He is the chairman of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, which originally spearheaded armed militancy in the Kashmir Valley. [3]
The Panun Kashmir organization was founded by Kashmiris, including Kashmiri Hindu writer and activist Agnishekhar, in 1990 after the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus from Kashmir, under threat from militants. Approximately 300,000 [6] [7] [8] to 600,000 [9] [10] [11] Kashmiri Hindus fled Kashmir due to rising armed rebellion in Kashmir. However, Panun ...
Anti-Pandit Militants 2 21 May Assassination of Imam Mohammad Farooq Shah. Hizbul Mujahideen: 1 1990–1991 Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus: Anti-Hindu and Anti India Millitants 217-228 [7] [8] Dissolved (Jagmohan Malhotra) Chandra Shekhar P. V. Narasimha Rao 1994 29 March Assassination of Lt Gen E. W. Fernandes and other Indian Army officers.