With their pleas for facilitating pilgrimage to the Sharda Devi shrine in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) finding little favour with the government, a group of Kashmiri Pandits have now pinned their hopes on separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq's upcoming Pakistan visit.
Not only do they want him to take up the issue with the neighbouring country, they also want to be part of the moderate Hurriyat delegation that is scheduled to visit Pakistan.
“It has always been our wish to visit the Sharda temple. Now that Mirwaiz is scheduled to visit Pakistan, we want him to raise the issue with Pakistan so that we are able to visit this shrine which is thousands of years old... We would also like to be a part of the delegation that is going to Pakistan,” Anantnag Praphandak Committee (APC) chairman Jigen Goja told The Tribune over the phone.
Mirwaiz, who heads the moderate Hurriyat conglomerate, is currently holding deliberations with a cross-section of people in the Valley to build a “broader consensus” over the Kashmir issue ahead of his Pakistan visit scheduled on December 15.
Goja, who is currently in Jammu, said an APC delegation after holding consultations with other Kashmiri Pandits would visit Kashmir next month and meet Mirwaiz with their demand. “As he is currently talking to the civil society and others, we want that he should also raise this important issue pertaining to our community.... Moreover, the visit to the shrine is not just our demand but also of other (Pandit) groups," he added.
Goja said the Shardha Devi shrine had immense religious significance for them and that there were “no reasons” for not allowing them to visit the temple as there were “no problems” while visiting Nankana Sahib in Punjab, Pakistan.
Several groups for long have been demanding pilgrimages to the Sharda temple, which is located across the Line of Control (LoC).
While it has been a long-pending demand of the All Parties Migrant Coordination Committee (APMCC) to visit the shrine, the Akhil Bhartiya Gujjar Mahasabha (ABGM) had recently urged the state and Central governments to open the route to the shrine via Jumagund village of the border district of Kupwara.
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