Youth 4 Panun Kashmir (Y4PK) has strongly condemned and outrightly rejected the written statement submitted by the Jammu and Kashmir Council for Human Rights (JKCHR) at the 61st Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. It has called the statement fraudulent, a travesty of truth and a disgraceful attempt to whitewash the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Hindus from their homeland.
Incidentally, JKCHR is a UK-based NGO mainly comprising of Pakistanis, Khalistanis and other anti-India forces. On its website, it claims to have been active since 1984 for lobbying against the Indian government in different forums. It is one of the proxies used by Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) to further the nefarious propaganda against India, according to an expert who requested anonymity.
The statement presented by JKCHR attempts to portray the forced exodus of Kashmiri Hindus merely as a question of “reintegration” and “communal reconciliation,” while dismissing the legitimate demand of the displaced community for security and political safeguards as “segregated settlement schemes.” Youth 4 Panun Kashmir stated that this narrative is not only historically false but morally outrageous, because it deliberately ignores the brutal reality that forced hundreds of thousands of Kashmiri Hindus to flee their ancestral homeland in 1990.
Y4PK reminded JKCHR and the international community that the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of India itself officially described the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus as “akin to genocide.” The NHRC recorded that Kashmiri Pandits were subjected to targeted killings, threats, intimidation from mosque loudspeakers, religious persecution, and systematic violence that forced them into exile. Any attempt to dilute this reality or portray the genocide as a simple “displacement” is therefore a gross falsification of historical truth and an insult to the victims of one of the most brutal episodes of religious cleansing in modern India.
Reacting sharply, Rahul Kaul, Chairman of the Apex Committee of Youth 4 Panun Kashmir, stated: “The document submitted by JKCHR at the UNHRC is nothing but a travesty. It attempts to erase the brutal history of the Kashmiri Hindu genocide and replace it with a politically convenient narrative of reconciliation without justice. Kashmiri Pandits did not migrate voluntarily; they were driven out through terror, killings, and open Islamist threats. To now lecture the victims about reintegration without acknowledging the genocide is intellectually dishonest and morally repugnant.”
Vithal Chowdhary, President of Youth 4 Panun Kashmir, said that the document represents a dangerous inversion of victim and perpetrator narratives. “Those who ask Kashmiri Hindus to quietly ‘reintegrate’ into the same hostile ecosystem that forced them out are asking victims to surrender their right to security. This narrative attempts to normalize the consequences of jihadist violence in Kashmir while denying justice to the victims. Such a position cannot be accepted by the displaced community.”
Reiterating the community’s long-standing political position, Digamber Raina, General Secretary of Youth 4 Panun Kashmir, said: “Let it be absolutely clear — Kashmiri Hindus will return to Kashmir only in the form of their Homeland as envisaged in the historic Margdarshan Resolution of 1991. Any attempt to push the community into scattered settlements under the illusion of reintegration is unacceptable. The Homeland demand is not segregation; it is the minimum political and security guarantee required for the survival of an indigenous minority that has already faced genocide.”
Youth 4 Panun Kashmir, therefore, declared that the JKCHR statement is bogus, misleading, and deeply irresponsible, as it attempts to rewrite the history of the Kashmiri Hindu genocide while presenting a morally inverted narrative before international institutions. The organisation emphasised that genuine human rights advocacy must begin with acknowledging the truth of the genocide of Kashmiri Hindus and recognising their right to return with dignity, security, and political safeguards.
Y4PK concluded that no amount of narrative manipulation at international forums can erase the historical truth of the Kashmiri Hindu genocide, and reaffirmed that the struggle for justice, recognition of genocide, and the establishment of a separate Homeland for Kashmiri Hindus in Kashmir under Indian sovereignty will continue with unwavering resolve.
