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Kashmir Files: From the Other End of the Telescope.
SS; on Whatsapp: There's, at least, one inaccuracy, when the exodus happened, it was Farooq Abdullah in the seat of Chief Minister.
The day Jagmohan was sent as the Governor, he resigned and Jagmohan would take over the reins. That was Jan. 19 2000. ( https://www.indiatoday.in/india/video/kashmiri-pandits-exodus-did-not-take-place-during-my-rule-farooq-abdullah-1928286-2022-03-22 Farookh Abdullah: The exodus didn't take place during my rule. It took place when Delhi govt was there and their Governor was in Kashmir. Farooq Abdullah had already resigned long before that." Ed) )
( Jagmohan took office 19th January 1990.. The same night the major exodus took place.)
Jagmohan would, almost immediately, impose a reign of bloody terror, the most outrageous demonstration was spraying of a peaceful funeral procession with bullets by the security forces.
Under the impact of the consequential din, Jagmohan would soon be given the order of the boot (26th May, 1990) and the tragic tales of the Kashmiri Pandits got drowned.
Residents recall Jagmohan Malhotra's 1990 reign with fear, horror Mir Farhat June 26, 2018 https://www.firstpost.com/india/governors-rule-in-jammu-and-kashmir-residents-recall-jagmohan-malhotras-1990-reign-with-fear-horror-4602271.html In 1990, militancy was at its peak in Jammu and Kashmir. Pro-freedom sentiment among people was overwhelming. The state was being ruled by the National Conference (NC) led by then chief minister Farooq Abdullah. As militants gained public support in the Valley, New Delhi felt Jammu and Kashmir was slipping away from its control. It needed measures to curb the full-blown secessionist movement and public support. When the political and security situation became extremely turbulent, New Delhi, under the stewardship of then prime minister VP Singh, dispatched Malhotra to the state. Late PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was then India's home minister. Abdullah, who opposed Singh’s decision, resigned from the state Assembly. Governor’s Rule was imposed in Jammu and Kashmir yet again.
"The first impression among people of Jagmohan’s arrival to Kashmir in January 1990 was of fear and horror," said Bashir Ahmad, a resident of Sopore in north Kashmir. "Jagmohan was seen by residents through the prism of the 1976 Turkman Gate massacre in Delhi where local residents protesting the demolition of a Muslim colony in the city were killed.” In Jammu and Kashmir, Jagmohan’s second stint in power is remembered as being synonymous with repression, “hate” and “massacres”. “He created hatred against himself among the masses and gave a very bad impression of Governor’s Rule in Jammu and Kashmir. He gave the security forces a free hand to deal with militants and the people,” Hamidullah Ahmad of south Kashmir’s Anantnag alleged.
Two days after Jagmohan took over, the state witnessed the Gaw Kadal massacre in which 50 to 55 people participating in protests against the governor and the central government were killed. Days later, on 25 January, 1990, 21 civilians were killed by the Border Security Force (BSF) in Handwara.
On 1 March, 1990, around 33 people were killed at Zakoora, Tengpora, and on 21 May, 1990, at least 50 people were killed when the BSF fired at the funeral procession of Mirwaiz Maulvi Mohammad Farooq near Srinagar’s Islamia College. This finally forced New Delhi to call Jagmohan back and he resigned as governor.
कश्मीर फाइल पर मोदीजी के कमेंट Advocate Ratna Vohra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkPwk8lzJ3A Mar 19, 2022
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Other videos in Adv. Vohra's channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNqD9MsSvufqpvrvtt2xWMA/videos
The Kashmir Files is a propaganda movie, won’t see it, Kashmiri Muslims protected pandits: Former RAW Chief A.S. Dulat By Rabia Shireen March 22, 2022 https://thehindustangazette.com/national/jammu-and-kashmir/the-kashmir-files-is-a-propaganda-movie-wont-see-it-kashmiri-muslims-protected-pandits-former-raw-chief-a-s-dulat-8963
“Many pandits who chose to stay behind were protected by Muslims and they did stay back. Even after the abrogation of Article 370, the pandits have not been targeted,” A.S. Dulat added. When asked if it is really possible for the pandits to return to Kashmir? He said that if they went back, their neighbors and friends would try to protect them. However, building separate colonies for them would be entirely the wrong way to go about it, says Dulat adding, “If you built a separate colony for them, they would be targeted.”
Dulat, who is considered one of the country’s foremost experts on Kashmir and the insurgency said, “The Kashmir that he came back to after four or five months, it was totally different from the Kashmir he had left. He has quite shaken himself.”
Whatsapp Message posting this video: I salute this Brave Kashmiri Pandit woman! It's not easy going against the popular Majority narrative that you are being fed with.
This requires Integrity to question the constant Fake one sided propaganda.
This requires courage to stand up and not let Hatred and deceit go unchallenged!
There is no one perfect, no community perfect and it takes a lot to point out to the evil done within ones own community, the community where you belong before Judging others! May many of us have the same courage. Art must be used for Reconciliation and forgiveness , not for making us Blood thirsty and vengeful! Down with one sided Hate filled propaganda #KashmirFiles
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What happened before the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits https://www.indiatoday.in/news-analysis/story/before-exodus-of-kashmiri-pandits-1928582-2022-03-23
Plebiscite Front in Pakistan-occupied areas of Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir founded by Amanullah Khan in 1965
Hijacking of a Srinagar-Jammu flight in January 1971. Bangladesh ware
By the end of the 1970s, Islamist fundamentalism in Afghanistan, mentored by Pakistani agencies with the aid of the US and Saudi Arabia. the Islamic Revolution under Ayatollah Khomeini took Iran by storm. Wahabism was spreading in the Af-Pak region.
Amanatullah found JKLF, which peaked in 1980s
1984: Amanatulla Khan asked by Pakistani Army to trigger insurgency in Valley.
Farookh Abdullah takes over CM 1982. Wins 1983 elections. But party splits, Gul Shah takes over.
Militancy increases
Feb 1986 Gul Shah addressed a public meeting in the Valley where he said, “Islam khatre mein hai [Islam is in danger]. Massive rioting happened in Kashmir Valley.
Governor Jagmohan dismissed the Gul Shah’s government.
Sheikh Abdullah-Indira Pact, rehabs Sheikh Abdullah. Sheikh accused of letting Wahabi wave take over Sufism of Kashmir
Muslim United Front demanded the Quranic law be made the law in the state assembly. Their leaders included Syed Ali Shah Geelani (later Hurriyat chief), Yasin Malik (separatist leader) and Mohammad Yusuf Shah aka Syed Salahuddin (the head of terror group Hizbul Mujahideen).
Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections in 1987. The election is considered as the most-rigged election in India. The election brought Farooq Abdullah to power in Jammu and Kashmir.
Vishwanath Pratap Singh, becomes PM overthrowing Rajiv Gandhi in 1989. Singh made Mufti Mohammad Sayeed (arch rival of Abdullah) his home minister
Abdullah had already declared that he would resign if Jagmohan was made governor. He resigned the same day when Jagmohan was appointed January 19, 1990.
The targeted killings that started in September 1989 rose sharply in the Kashmir Valley in January 1990. The exodus of Kashmiri Pandits began soon after as Jagmohan came and Abdullah went away.
1990: 29th Jan 1990 Exodus
OPeration Topac final stage 1991. Zia ul Haq dies in plane crash. Militant trigger riots in Srinagar, Baramulla, Pulwama, Bhaderwah, Anantanag
Kashmiri Pandit exodus: chronology & players, Abdullahs & Muftis, VP Singh, Jagmohan & Narasimha Rao Mar 18, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSODfgCXvqU
As controversy rages around Vivek Aghnihotri’s ‘The Kahsmir Files’ watch this abridged version of Cut The Clutter in which Shekhar Gupta breaks down the chronology of Jammu and Kashmir’s political past. He revisits the most important political developments that led to Kashmiri Pandits’ plight
Main chronology considered significant by Shekar Gupta
| Early 1975 till 1984 | Indira - Sheikh Accord |
Sheikh Abdulla takes power in Kashmir Farookh took power after Sheikh's death |
Resistance to the accord resulted in taking the state to a bit of islamisation |
| 2nd July 1984 | Farokh Abdulla's government dismissed by Congress | Farookh's brother in law, GM shah installed as CM | Allegation of excesses on Congress workers. New CM far from folowing centres bidding, ran a rogue admin, spreading bogie of islam is in danger. |
| Feb 1986 | First Hindu-Muslim Riots | ||
Kashmiri files movie ki Pol khol di Nishant Verma ne कश्मीरी फाइल्स फिल्म की पोल खोल दी निशांत वर्मा
Mar 19, 2022About Letter: https://youtu.be/GWjGEhE8ZCA?t=120
1990 letter by Pandits blames guv, Mufti Zulfikar Majid Srinagar: September 29, 2016, DHNS, SEP 29 2016, https://www.deccanherald.com/content/573024/1990-letter-pandits-blames-guv.html https://www.deccanherald.com/content/573024/1990-letter-pandits-blames-guv.html
e two-page letter, dated September 22, 1990, and duly signed by 23 Pandits, states: “There can be no dispute about the fact that the Kashmiri Pandit community was made a scapegoat by Jagmohan, some self-styled leaders of our community and other vested interests.”... According to reliable and well-informed sources, the plan was to make Pandits migrate from the Valley so that the uprising against India could be painted as a communal flare-up and the massacre of Muslims could be termed as a fight against the communal forces and a measure for the restoration of law and order,” the letter states.