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  As many as 98,600 Kashmiri migrants have been issued domicile certificates till the end of June, officials said here on Friday. Giving the breakup, officials said 90,430 domicile certificates were issued to displaced Kashmiri Pandits, while 2,340 families of displaced Kashmiri Pandits were registered as fresh migrants. Of these, 8,170 individuals received the domicile certificate. Similarly, 2,988 families of displaced Persons of Pakistan occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) livings outside Jammu and Kashmir have also been registered and domicile certificate issued to them, they said. Relief and Rehabilitation commissioner T K Bhat, who supervised and monitored the operation of issuance of domicile certificates and fresh registration of displaced Kashmiri Pandits and those from PoJK, said the process had begun in July last year. Any Kashmiri Pandit and displaced person, who may have left Kashmir in 1944 before Independence and has proof of owning or possessing immovable property in ...