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Srinagar: Former senior police officer of Indian illegally occupied Jammu Kashmir, Ali Muhammad Watali, has termed the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits in 1990 as a \u201cbig game\u201d orchestrated with the arrival of then-Governor Jagmohan.<\/p>\n
According to Kashmir Media Service, in his book \u2018Guns Under My Chinar\u2019, Wattali asserts that no Kashmiri Pandit had fled the occupied Kashmir Valley during Dr. Farooq Abdullah\u2019s tenure as Chief Minister, emphasizing that the displacement was politically driven rather than a communal issue.<\/p>\n
Watali also states that Kashmiri Pandits remain reluctant to return despite the abrogation of occupied Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s special status in 2019. Even those who secured jobs under the special employment package introduced by former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have refused to serve in Kashmir.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Dr Farooq Abdullah had echoed similar sentiments, describing the migration as the \u201cbiggest betrayal\u201d of Kashmiri Pandits by Jagmohan, stating that the then IIOJK Governor used their victimhood for political gains.<\/p>\n
According to Farooq Abdullah, Jagmohan assured the Kashmiri Pandits that their displacement was temporary and that they would return within two months, a promise that was never fulfilled.<\/p>\n
It is worth mentioning that the Pandits\u2019 exodus was never about their safety but about advancing India\u2019s nefarious agenda. The exodus was deliberately orchestrated by the Indian government to communalize the indigenous mass uprising against its rule in IIOJK and it was never about their safety. By engineering their displacement, New Delhi sought to portray the freedom struggle as sectarian rather than political, thereby justifying its brutal military crackdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Srinagar: Former senior police officer of Indian illegally occupied Jammu Kashmir, Ali Muhammad Watali, has termed the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits in 1990 as a \u201cbig game\u201d orchestrated with the arrival of then-Governor Jagmohan. According to Kashmir Media Service, in his book \u2018Guns Under My Chinar\u2019, Wattali asserts that no Kashmiri Pandit had fled the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-167204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-occupied-jammu-and-kashmir","tag-top-story"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/02\/Kashmiri-Pandits-was-political-game-watali.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}