Srinagar, May 1: Chairman of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, Muhammad Yasin Malik on Sunday visited south Kashmir’s Aishmuqam area to express solidarity with the family of a Kashmiri Pandit youth, Susheel Raina, who went missing last month. 
 “I met Pandit brethern and Muslims of the area,” Malik told Greater Kashmir. “They are really concerned about the missing youth.”
 The 21-year-old Susheel son of Badrinath Raina went missing from Chandergam, Aishmuqam in south Kashmir’s Islamabad district on April, 4. Susheel had left his home to collect a certificate from the boys Degree College when he went missing.
 Malik said the village is a glorious example of communal harmony where Muslims were caretakers of the Pandit family. “Muslims of the areas told me that they feel that Susheel is their son. They demand that he should be immediately traced,” Malik said.
 “It should serve as an eye opener for the people with vested interests based in Delhi and elsewhere. They are doing politics over the same issue. They should come here and see how Pandits and Muslims are collectively making efforts to get him traced,” he added.   
 The JKLF chairman said he had full hope that the missing boy would be traced soon. “I also told them JKLF is at their disposal,” Malik said.
 He said the Pandits who did not leave Valley during 1990 were deprived of many benefits that were otherwise granted to migrant Pandits.
 “They (Pandits who didn’t migrate) have lived through troubled times. However they have not been given any economic or other benefit,” Malik said. “They are in depression and are struggling to make their ends meet.”

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