SRINAGAR: A brand new poster issued by the little-known United Liberation Council (ULC) threatening Kashmiri Pandits led group members working within the Kashmir Valley underneath the PM Bundle for Kashmiri Migrants and Non-Migrant Kashmiri Pandits to put in writing to J&Okay chief secretary Atal Dulloo looking for enhanced safety. Chief minister Omar Abdullah described the threats as “extremely regarding.”The poster comprises the private particulars of some Kashmiri Pandit staff, together with addresses.Omar, speaking to reporters right here, urged police and law-and-order companies to not take the threats flippantly. He stated the companies have a accountability to supply safety to Kashmiri Pandit staff and urged them to proactively examine the supply of the threats.“In an analogous state of affairs round two and a half years in the past, some Pandit staff had been focused,” Omar stated. He stated safety and law-and-order preparations in J&Okay are underneath the management of the lieutenant-governor.The police have issued any assertion on the recent risk. The chief secretary was not obtainable for remark.In keeping with a letter from All PM Bundle Staff’ Discussion board to the CS, “a recent risk poster, purportedly issued by a terrorist outfit calling itself the United Liberation Council (ULC) on Aug 23, 2026, has surfaced on social media. The poster reportedly comprises threats directed in the direction of migrant Kashmiri Pandit staff and … particulars equivalent to names, addresses and car numbers of sure people.”Whereas the discussion board stated the “authenticity of the poster is but to be verified by police and safety companies”, it added that “the repeated circulation of such risk letters and posters, notably these containing delicate private data, is a matter of grave concern”.The discussion board sought a overview of safety preparations at locations of posting, residential lodging and transit routes of PM Bundle staff. It stated govt ought to be sure that staff whose names, addresses or car particulars have appeared in such threats obtain rapid safety and mandatory safety steerage.All Minority Staff Affiliation president Sanjay Kaul stated the Aug 23 poster was the third in 20 days. “We’re solely right here for work. We take such risk letters significantly as they include names and even numbers of automobiles of some Pandit staff,” Kaul stated. “Earlier than 2022 we had been working fearlessly, however not now. We search a radical probe,” he added.
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In Might 2022, Kashmiri Pandit migrant worker Rahul Bhat was shot useless by terrorists inside his workplace in central Kashmir’s Budgam district. He was recruited as a clerk underneath the PM Bundle for migrants in 2010-11.The Manmohan Singh-led UPA govt had in 2008 launched a rehabilitation bundle for Kashmiri Pandits dwelling outdoors the Valley, together with offering 6,000 govt jobs and creation of recent posts. These recruited underneath the bundle are posted in numerous govt departments throughout Kashmir and generally known as “PM bundle staff”.
