PaK refuges threaten to occupy migrant flats

Jammu, Feb 18: An organisation of refugees from the Pakistan- administered Kashmir, SOS International, Friday threatened to occupy the residential blocks constructed for Kashmiri migrants.
 More than 4,000 flats with all facilities have been constructed for Kashmiri migrants at Jagti, a town near Jammu, and the complex is likely to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during his forthcoming visit to Jammu early March.
 Rajiv Chuni, chairman of SOS International, in a statement sought the allotment of the flats as per the ratio of population of refugees from across the Line of Control, which he claimed is 1.2 million, and Kashmiri migrants, who are about 200,000.
 'Otherwise, we would be forced to occupy these flats,' he said.
 Chuni alleged that the central and the state governments had been discriminating against refugees from PaK, who are living in 79 camps for the past 63 years, while Kashmiri migrants were being given monthly relief, free ration and now residential flats.
 “Why this discrimination?” he asked and pointed out: 'We are as much residents of Jammu and Kashmir as the migrants from the valley.'

Lastupdate on : Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:30:00 Makkah time
Lastupdate on : Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:30:00 GMT
Lastupdate on : Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:00:00 IST



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