Kashmiri Muslims In Bandipore Celebrate Shivratri, Want Pandits To Return

  • | Friday | 24th February, 2017

Outside the temple, people held a demonstration to seek the early return of Kashmiri Pandits. Not after Kashmiri Pandits fled the town 25 km from Srinagar during the peak of the militancy in the early nineties.Friday morning was different.Kashmiri Muslims living in the town turned up at the temple to celebrate Shivratri, the biggest festival on the calendar of Kashmiri Pandits. "That is why we entered the temple, cleaned it... (We did) whatever we could do since we are Muslims, not Pandits. "This is the first time that the Muslims in a region had come together to make their message to the Pandits heard. An ancient Shiv temple in Bandipore's Sumbal town on the banks of Jhelum hasn't had devotees on Shivratri for years.

"They are part of our body and soul which has been snatched and separated from us. Today we are sending a message to them. Please return, we are with you."This is the first time that the Muslims in a region had come together to make their message to the Pandits heard. A common refrain was that they had decided not to let any political party or ideology divide them.

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