MP Baig's fear: 'Individuals will flourish but there may be no KP community as such'

Kashmiri Pandits will flourish as individuals wherever they go but there may be no KP community as such in a decade or two, People's Democratic Party MP Muzaffar Hussain Baig has said while highlighting their plight.

He was speaking at a recent conclave -- The Kashmiri Pandits: Right the Wrong in Kashmir -- which was also attended by former Jammu and Kashmir finance minister and senior National Conference leader Abdul Rahim Rather, among other panelists.

The Kashmiri Pandit community faced an exodus in 1990 from the state after facing atrocities. The community has been demanding a peaceful return to their homeland.

"The year of 1990 will go down in the history of Kashmir and perhaps the rest of India as the one of the darkest days of our history," Baig said. "It was in this year that the mass exodus of the KP community who were the original inhabitants of Kashmir took place in the wake of a mass uprising."
Rather said, "I have immense love and respect for the KP community and KPs are an important and integral part of our society and culture."