SRINAGAR, June 24 -- PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday said Kashmiri Pandits and Muslims together have a larger role to play than the government for the displaced population's return to the valley.

"I think there is less of a role for the government and more of our Muslim and Pandit brothers together. We are one, we are not different. I request our Kashmiri Pandit brethren not to look at the past, but look towards the future," Mehbooba told reporters in the Anantnag district.

The former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir participated in the 'Mekhal' ceremony of the children of a Kashmiri Pandit at their ancestral village in Omooh in the Verinag area of the south Kashmir district.

Pointing to the examples of respected Kashmiri Pandit...