Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's peace initiative on Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has passed through the mirror between the real world and into that strange place Lewis Carroll called Wonderland.
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The recent arrests in Rajasthan mark progress in resolving some of the most opaque and contentious terrorist attacks India has seen — and also focus attention on a little-understood threat
For the first time since 2005, the year-on-year reduction of infiltration across the LoC has reversed. Indian strategists would be ill-advised to assume that the militants are fated to lose their battle for renewal.
New Delhi would do well to engage with the multiple voices in the new elected Assembly in J&K, rather than reach out once more to a secessionist leadership that has been humiliated by the peoples it claims to represent.
The JuD is arguably the best-organised political force in Punjab. Dismantling its infrastructure will prove a formidable challenge to Pakistan, even if the State does, indeed, decide it wishes to take that course. Failure to compel Pakistan to act, h
In 1947, Mahatma Gandhi had seen in Kashmir "a ray of hope in the darkness", as communal harmony held against the tide of mutual carnage that was afflicting other parts of the country. Today, J&K desperately needs leaders who can point its people in
J&K's syncretic traditions have been increasingly marginalised. A neoconservative Islam shaped by west-Asian petro-dollars, often channelled through Pakistani agencies, has acquired primacy. Hindutva's helped the Islamist project along...
Both the aggressive polemic and the hostilities along the LoC seem likely to escalate as the elections near. Whether the India-Pakistan peace process can survive the multiple strains it is now subject to remains to be seen.
The jehad might be waning, but is it an inexorable process? Not as yet. The competence of India's pre-election counter-terrorism operations is pitted against Pakistan's covert services, and the Islamist terror groups created and supported by them.
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