The Kashmiri Pandit Global Community organized a teleconference call on May 22/23, 2018 to discuss and register protest against the malicious FIR lodged against eminent KP activist and speaker Mr. Sushil Pandit by J&K Police over an innocent tweet.  Over 800 people from various countries on five continents participated in the one and a half hour long meeting.

There was unanimous support for Sushil Pandit and strong condemnation of J&K Police’s recent targeting of Kashmiri Hindu advocates and peaceful activists with frivolous FIR’s in order to intimidate and silence our voice.

The teleconference began with Sushil Pandit navigating the participants through the circumstances that led to his tweet the substance of which he picked up in a conference on Kashmir in Delhi. He later realized that the information was inaccurate and deleted it.  This did not stop neither Omar Abdullah from responding with a malicious rejoinder nor the J&K Police from taking punitive action..

Various speakers from India, North America, Europe and Australia expressed misgivings about the J&K Police’s recent policy of ignoring threatening, abusive and anti national social media posts/tweets emanating from the Separatists/ Islamists in Kashmir Valley while needlessly targeting and harassing Kashmiri Hindu refugees. This is seen as a deliberate attempt to gag prominent voices from our community who are educating the world about the genocidal killings and forced exodus of  350,000 Kashmiri Pandits from Kashmir in the 1990’s.

The Speakers Mr. Rakesh Kaul ( USA ), Mr. Hira Fotedar ( USA ), Dr. Ajay Chrungoo ( India ), Prof. Renuka Dhar( India ), Dr. Shafalica Bhan Kotwal ( UK ), Mr. Ashok Kaul ( Canada ), Mr. Veerji Wangoo ( Europe ) demanded that FIR against Sushil Pandit should be immediately dismissed and J&K Police should take stern action against the former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for willfully misrepresenting Sushil Pandit’s tweet.

The event was moderated by Anil Kachroo ( USA ) and coordinated by Surinder Kaul ( USA )