Panun Kashmir

Panun Kashmir (English: Our Kashmir) is a proposed union territory of India in the Kashmir Valley, which is intended to be a homeland for Kashmiri Hindus.[1][2][3][4][5]

Location of the proposed Panun Kashmir in the wider Kashmir region

Origin and etymology
See also: Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus

Panun Kashir is derived from Kashmiri panun kaśīr, which means "our own Kashmir". The Panun Kashmir organisation was founded in 1990 after the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus from Kashmir, under threat from militants. Approximately 300,000[6][7][8] to 600,000[9][10][11] Kashmiri Hindus fled Kashmir due to rising Islamic terrorism in Kashmir. However, Panun Kashmir estimates nearly 700,000 refugees.[12]

Proposed union territory of Panun Kashmir

The organisation passed a resolution in 1991 demanding that:

(a) the establishment of a Homeland for the Kashmiri Hindus in the Valley of Kashmir comprising the regions of the Valley to the East and North of Jhelum River.

(b) that the Constitution of India be made applicable in letter and spirit in this Homeland in order to ensure right to life, liberty, freedom of expression and faith, equality and rule of law.

(c) that the Homeland be placed under the Central administration with a Union Territory status; and

(d) that all the seven hundred thousand Kashmiri Hindus, including those who have been driven out of Kashmir in the past and yearn to return to their homeland and those who were forced to leave on account of terrorist violence in Kashmir, be settled in the homeland on an equitable basis with dignity and honor.[13]

Some advocates for Panun Kashmir wish that the majority of the valley of Kashmir and cities such as Srinagar, Anantnag, Sopore, Baramulla and Awantipora be included in the proposed union territory. However, the organisation claims that it in fact does not seek a Hindu homeland. Rather, it seeks a homeland for Kashmiri Hindus who are ready to live peacefully with their Muslim neighbours assuming the conditions are met for resettlement.

Youth 4 Panun Kashmir

Youth 4 Panun Kashmir works under the aegis of Panun Kashmir and acts as its offcial Youth Wing. Formed in 2011, Y4PK is credited of having conducted country wide EK BHARAT ABHIYAN where more than 350 Organisations gave letters of support for the justified return of Kashmiri hindus to their homeland.

See also

References
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  6. Singh, Devinder (21 November 2014). "Reinventing Agency, Sacred Geography and Community Formation: The Case of Displaced Kashmiri Pandits in India". The Changing World Religion Map. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. pp. 397–414. doi:10.1007/978-94-017-9376-6_20. ISBN 9789401793759.
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  8. Yong, Amos (2011). "Constructing China's Jerusalem: Christians, Power, and Place in Contemporary Wenzhou - By Nanlai Cao". Religious Studies Review. 37 (3): 236. doi:10.1111/j.1748-0922.2011.01544_1.x. ISSN 0319-485X.
  9. "CIA - The World Factbook -- India". 13 May 2009. Archived from the original on 13 May 2009. at least 600,000 (about half are Kashmiri Pandits from Jammu and Kashmir) (2007) Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. Casimir, Michael J.; Lancaster, William; Rao, Aparna (1 June 1997). "Editorial". Nomadic Peoples. 1 (1): 3–4. doi:10.3167/082279497782384668. ISSN 0822-7942.:From 1947 on, Kashmir's roughly 700,000 Hindus felt increasingly uneasy and discriminated against, and youth … from a variety of sources such as Islamist organizations, Islamic countries, Kashmiri Muslim fund raisers in the West, and migrant labor from Azad Kashmir in the …
  11. Sarkaria, Mallika Kaur (2009). "Powerful Pawns of the Kashmir Conflict: Kashmiri Pandit Migrants". Asian and Pacific Migration Journal. 18 (2): 197–230. doi:10.1177/011719680901800202. ISSN 0117-1968. S2CID 145137184.:… of the Centre of Central Asian Studies, Kashmir University, and member of Panun Kashmir (a Pandit … the Valley in 1990, believes "it could be anything between 300,000 to 600,000 people
  12. "A Homeland for the Kashmiri Pandits". Panun Kashmir. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013.
  13. "Why Homeland? Introduction". Panun Kashmir. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013.

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