Kashmiri Pandits demand relocation, 100 Hindu families flee valley over targeted killings in J-K

After the two Hindu employees were killed by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir over the last 72 hours, the Kashmiri Pandit community has expressed anguish and panic over the situation in the valley, demanding relocation to less-dangerous towns of the union territory.

Distressed by the killing of a bank employee from Rajasthan in Jammu and Kashmir today, hundreds of government employees took out a march on Thursday to demand their immediate transfer to their respective home districts in Jammu city.

A community leader from the valley also said on Wednesday that over 100 Hindu families have fled Jammu and Kashmir as panic spread after the killing of a Hindu school teacher in India’s only Muslim-majority region, as per Reuters reports.

Avtar Krishan Bhat, president of a Hindu Kashmiri Pandit colony in northern Kashmir’s Baramulla, said that around half of the 300 families living in the area had fled since Tuesday.

“They were terrified after yesterday’s killing. We will also…

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