Pakistan, Jan. 23 -- For nearly four decades, the tragedy of 1990 has been repeatedly reframed as a singular, sanitised story: the "genocide" of Kashmiri Pandits and their forever-exile. That narrative-now amplified by some Pandit organisations and useful to political actors in New Delhi-has obfuscated a far more complicated reality. What unfolded in the Valley was political collapse, communal and political violence, and the securitisation of an unresolved international dispute. To treat the 1990 exodus as a standalone moral cudgel is to ignore how state action and strategic administration have since reshaped Kashmir's political geography.

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