Fear among Pandits after fresh terror threat in J&K
◗ A BLOG linked to The Resistance Front (TRF), an offshoot of the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, published a list of about 60 Kashmiri Pandit employees under PMRP and warned of mounting attacks on them
The Jammu and Kashmir police is reported to have initiated a probe into the leaking of a government document that identifies the beneficiaries of the Prime Minister’s special employment package for displaced Kashmiri Pandits and its passing into the militants’ hands, prompting them to issue an online threat to them.
A police officer who spoke to this newspaper on condition of anonymity said that though the document was not officially stated as being classified “but how it passed into the terrorists” hands is a matter of concern.
A blog post linked to Lashkar-e-Tayyaba affiliate, The Resistance Front (TRT), refers to them as “non-locals” and “socalled migrant Kashmiri Pandits” and alleges that amongst them are those who have been assigned “to play their vital role in spreading Delhi’s narrative and Hindutva agenda.”
The blog post says that the government has identified 19 locations in the Valley for the construction of 6,000 flats for the transit accommodation of its migrant Kashmiri Pandit and non-local employees “to spread their vicious tentacles.”
“The resistance fighters have got all the details of each and every migrant Hindutva fascist spreading migrant Kashmiri Pandits and non-locals/ foreigners maligning the atmosphere of the Valley” (sic).
It threatens to continue to carry out attacks on “such elements”.
Attached with the online threat is the official document which mentions the names of about 60 PM package employees with their job location and accommodation details.
The online threat has caused alarm and distress among these employees and questions are being asked by them and the community leadership as to how the militants could lay hands on an official document which should have been kept confidential and safe, given the sensitivities involved.