Nearly 250,000 Pandits left for safer places
in India, a migration which authorities say was the largest since partition of
India in 1947 into Hindu-majority India and Muslim Pakistan.
'Two decades of exile is a big period in history. The time has come now to put an end it,' Ashok Bhat, a Pandit leader, said.
'If this issue is not addressed, the chance of Kashmiri Pandits' extinction cannot be ruled out.'
(Editing by C.J. Kuncheria)
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