Nothing Can Stop Pandits From Returning To Valley: Farooq Abdullah

Farooq Abdullah said, "Big promises were made to you by those treating you as just a vote bank. They have not fulfilled a single promise."

Nothing can stop the displaced Kashmiri Pandits from returning to their native land and the conspirators of their "ethnic cleansing" will never get Jammu and Kashmir, National Conference (NC) chief Farooq Abdullah said on Saturday.

He, however, said that the time was not right for their return because of the hatred between two communities in the valley that is "deliberately created" over the years by the "vested interests" for political gains.

"(Kashmiri) Muslims did not drive you out from your homes those behind it were thinking Kashmir will be theirs by this ethnic cleansing. I repeat from this stage... even if the sky and the earth meet, Jammu and Kashmir will never be theirs," the former chief minister said in an apparent reference to Pakistan.

Kashmiri Pandits migrated from the valley in the wake of Pakistan-sponsored militancy in early 1990s.