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The Social Status of Kashmiri Pandit Community in Exile: Refugee or Internally Displaced Lalit K Kaul When it comes to defining our social status-while in exile- enormous flexibility has been employed in defining it by usage of the terms like “migrant”, “refugee” and “internally displaced”. The transition between these three nodes has been seamless. What hurts our cause most is to assign ourselves a status of “migrant” for it at once denies the genocide committed on, and forced exile of, our community. What adds insult to the injury is usage of “migrant” in our context by our spokesperson who engage themselves in a chat with the media and because we have many organizations taking up the community’s cause, therefore, there are as many spokesperson. However the question that needs to be settled is: are we “refugee” or “Internally displaced persons”? An attempt is made here to find answers for it. “Internally Displaced Person (IDP)”: Forced movement of a genus within the same country oc...

Mehbooba Mufti's Letter to the LG of J&K UT Strengthens KP community's Homeland Demand   Lalit K Kaul Kashmiri Pandit community's return to Kashmir is not to be deliberated upon by the Muslim Clergy and Political Leadership in the Valley. Much less are they qualified to initiate a dialogue with the LG of J&K UT and the Home Minister of India about it. Because those who committed genocide on KP community and forced them into exile from their land of heritage can’t take it upon themselves to set the terms and conditions of their return and unfold the modus-operandi for implementing the same. For the simple reason that Muslims don’t own that piece of land called Kashmir. It’s not their fiefdom. Mehbooba Mufti’s letter to LG absolves Kashmiri Muslims of the genocidal acts that they committed against the Kashmiri Pandit community under the direction and supervision of their political and religious leadership in Kashmir and the whole process was well thought over and or...