KASHMIRI PANDIT EMPLOYEES DEMAND RELOCATION TO SAFE PLACES

SRINAGAR: A group of Kashmiri Pandit employees staged a protest here on Saturday against targeted killings and demanding their relocation to safe places outside Kashmir Valley, days after a community member was killed by terrorists in his office in Budgam district. Alleging that camps housing Kashmiri Pandit employees have been locked following the killing of Rahul Bhat, the protesters demanded that the authorities remove such restrictions on them. The community members are posted in Kashmir Valley under the prime minister’s special employment package. Such employees living in the Vessu transit camp threatened to march to the transit accommodations at Sheikpura, where Bhat lived, and Veerwan in Baramulla if the authorities did not lift the restrictions by Sunday.