The claim made by Hindu nationalists is that they were ethnically cleansed by Muslims and displaced. A survey carried out by Kashmir Pandit Sangharsh Samiti in 2008 and 2009 said that 399 Kashmiri Pandits were killed from 1990 to 2011. As of 2016, 1,800 Kashmiri Pandit youths returned to the valley since the announcing of Rs. The Fotedar families, according to villagers, left the village in the 1990s and never returned. By The New York Times. The name Pandit was… Along with this, they were asked to leave the female members of the family behind in the valley. Houses of Pandits were specifically marked and warning notices … Every Kashmiri Muslim stands for their honourable return," Geelani said. Militant Who Forged Truce Is Killed. NEW DELHI, March 23 -- A Kashmiri militant who had tried to lay the groundwork for a dialogue with India was killed … Kashmiri Pandits are Kashmiri Hindu Brahmins who are at the center of debate with regards to why their population in the Valley of Kashmir has decreased. Makhan, who died on September 28, 2017 in Haryana, was also a leader of Kashmiri Pandits. In this video let us find out what happened. Pandits return and live among us like the old times. 1,168-crore package in 2008 by the UPA government. Twenty-seven years ago on 19 January 1990, in the valleys of Kashmir, mosques issued open warnings that the Kashmiri Pandits males had to follow one of the 3 options - leave Kashmir, convert to Islam or get ready to be killed. Governor Satya Pal Malik has, however, said the establishment of townships for migrant Pandits in the valley is a security requirement and mainstream political parties and the separatists must help this initiative.