‘Watching your every move’: Another threat letter with details of Kashmiri Pandits emerges

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Officials said security agencies are looking into the authenticity of the two letters and trying to identify those behind them.A fresh letter threatening Kashmiri Pandit migrants surfaced on Sunday, almost two weeks after a similar letter was posted online to warn those from the community working in the Kashmir Valley to “change their ways”.Significantly, this is the first time in decades that threat letters have included personal details of the migrants, down to the house number and street name.Naming half a dozen Kashmiri Pandits, the letter gives out their residential locations in different parts of Jammu and describes them as “white collar terrorists’’ and “traitors’’ working for their “masters” in Delhi.Officials said security agencies are looking into the authenticity of the two letters and trying to identify those behind them.Read | In Kashmir for better pay, the 2 migrants who never made it homeThe letter seeks to draw a distinction between Kashmiri Pandits who did not migrate from the Valley, saying they are safe and no one is opposed to them, and those who did migrate. The latter are the subject of the threat, as are those “trying to implement RSS agenda” in Kashmir.“As already warned, wherever you are and wherever you go, we are watching your every move,” the letter signed by one Ahmed Bilal states.Purportedly issued by a group called the United Liberation Council, which security agencies say could be another front of the Lashkar-e-Toiba, these letters are being seen as an attempt to intimidate Kashmiri Pandits who, on being appointed by the government to various departments under the PM job package, have returned to the Valley for work.Second such letter in a monthStory continues below this adEarlier this month, after the first threat letter emerged, the Jammu and Kashmir government had instructed departments under it to send Kashmiri Pandit employees on leave. The government had also asked them to remain alert and move to safer places.The previous letter had the names and phone numbers of some employees from the Revenue department. Police sources had said the letter attempted to link their work to the government seizing properties of terrorists. That letter came nearly a week after two migrant workers were killed by militants at a brick kiln in South Kashmir’s Kulgam on July 31.The ULC first made headlines in July when it released a poster on Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani’s death anniversary, officials said.The latest threats come at a time when government initiatives for the return and rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits have gained momentum.