Srinagar, March 24 -- The Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti (KPSS) on Monday said the number of non-migrant Kashmiri Pandit families has declined over the years in Kashmir.
According to KPSS, an organisation of Kashmiri Pandits living in the Valley said that in 2008, there were 808 non-migrant Kashmiri Pandit families residing in Kashmir. However, that number has now dropped below 650.
KPSS attributed the declining number to systemic exclusion.
"This demographic erosion is not accidental-it is a direct result of systemic exclusion and psychological warfare against our community, even as the Central Government claimed to support us," the KPSS president Sanjay Tickoo said in a statement.
He expressed deep anguish and dismay over what it ca...