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Centre ready to create appropriate environment for return of PoK Kashmiri youths: PM | On Board Air India One: Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Monday said the Centre would create an appropriate environment for Kashmiri youths wanting to comeback from Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK).
Interacting with the media on board Air India One, Dr. Singh said: "Any misguided
young people if they want to come back to the part of rectitude we have to provide
them an environment." The Prime Minister also said that the government would have
to keep an eye on such created facilities, so that people with strong violent
ideology should not misuse them. "At the same time one also has to recognise that
the creation of these facilities also can be misused by strong terrorist ideologically
motivated people," Dr. Singh said. "So our task is to find practical ways and
means to encourage those misguided people who had a change of heart come back,"
he added. Dr. Singh also assured that the government would create every facility
to "enable them (returned youths) to lead a life of dignity and self respect."
Last month, Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram had expressed the Centre's readiness
to facilitate return of all Kashmiri youths who had gone to PoK and wish to come
back denouncing militancy and said all of them are welcome. "Those Indians who
had crossed over to PoK and now wish to return to India are certainly welcome,"
Chidambaram had said. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had also
made a similar proposal and asked the Centre to formulate a new surrender and
rehabilitation policy. "To encourage more militants to return to the state and
manage their transition to civilian life, a new surrender and rehabilitation policy
of militants is under active consideration of my government," Abdullah had said.
The formulation of the surrender policy for nearly 800 youths willing to return
from PoK and join the mainstream came after the Centre received several feelers
about their pathetic condition. |
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