‘Leave Or Face Death’: Threat Letter To Kashmiri Pandits

A terrorist group, Lashkar-e-Islam, has sent a threat letter to Kashmiri Pandits residing in the Hawal transit in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district. In a letter addressed to the president of the migrant colony in Hawal, the group urged ‘migrants and RSS agents’ to “leave or face death.”

The threat letter, signed by the Commander of Lashkar-e-Islam, claimed there was “no space for Kashmiri Pandits who want another Israel in Kashmir to kill Kashmiri Muslims”, according to a report by India Today.

Double/triple your security, be ready for target killing. You will die,” the letter further stated.

This comes days after Rahul Bhat, a Kashmiri Pandit, was shot dead by terrorists at a govt office in J&K’s Budgam district. He had got a clerk's job under the special employment package for migrants in 2010-11. Terrorists gunned him down inside the tehsil office in Chadoora town on May 12.

Following the attack, the Kashmiri Pandit community held protests across Jammu and Kashmir and urged govt to provide security to them.

The Jammu and Kashmir Police said 3 terrorists belonging to LeT, who was involved in the killing of Rahul Bhat, were gunned down by security forces.

Meanwhile, the govt has ordered an inquiry into Bhat’s killing, and a Special Investigation Team (SIT) has been constituted.

Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said some people are trying to disturb peace in Kashmir and appealed to political parties and common people to remain united.

“I appeal to all the political parties to appeal for social boycott of such elements involved in these incidents (killings),” Sinha said.