Speak up on Shujaat Bukhari, Mr Prime Minister

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PM Modi isn’t of the “maun” variety. He speaks often and with alacrity on important developments, happy or tragic. His silence, therefore, on Kashmiri editor Shujaat Bukhari’s assassination is intriguing and unwise. India expects more than a studied silence on such a tragedy by an active and voluble prime minister.

A scrambled Kashmir policy that’s only led to disaster

Kashmir is much worse today than 2014 summer when Modi government took over, promising a robust approach. In the Valley and along the LoC, they established a muscular “new normal”. But it has waffled, between blowing hot and cold. The result is strategic and political confusion, and this is disaster.