Chitralekha Zutshi begins her article in The Print in a sombre and sad tone, stating Kashmiriyat is dead, while Zainab Sikander lamented the loss of voice of Muslims because of Jinnah
Karan Thapar in his article "We cannot be selective about the past in Jammu & Kashmir" in Hindustan Times dated 15th Sept 2019, gives a call to morality, intellectual honesty and being conscious to multiple peoples and their identities.
As a Kashmiri Hindu, it is all the more important to retell our stories now when there is a malicious and perverse attack to erase and distort our history and rewrite it to project the Muslim atrocities as a freedom struggle and not as an Islamist jihadi movement
Dhillon also stated that young children from the Valley were taken for a tour to Delhi, Ajmer Sharif and Jaipur so that they get exposure to developments in technology and other spheres.
Majeed Memon from NCP issued a statement recently about Pakistan's tirade against India and asserted that Pakistan is fighting for land and is not waging Jihad against India.
Interestingly, Imran Khan has chosen PoK for organising the 'Big Jalsa' despite the fact that PoK itself has seen protests over Human Rights violations and atrocities by Pakistani Army.