'Look at what happened in the valley in the last 24 hours (till Wednesday evening). Four soldiers lost their lives fighting militants,' he observed, while talking to IANS.

Bhalla, however, was optimistic about the future course of the apex panel. 'I am sure that others too would join the deliberations and together, all of us would carry forward the mission of taking our Kashmiri Pandit brethren back to the Valley.'

Issues like creating accommodation for the migrants in the valley and also offering jobs to the unemployed Kashmiri migrants were discussed.

'It was a fruitful exercise,' said former state chief secretary and Kashmiri Hindu leader Vijay Bakaya.

About 350,000 Kashmiri Hindus had fled the valley in 1990, fearing violence from the militants. Many of them live in migrant camps in the Hindu-dominated Jammu region.