The Centre had Wednesday announced a conditional ceasefire for the duration of Ramzan, the Muslim month of fasting, amid a particularly restive phase in Kashmir marked by frequent encounters between militants and security forces.
Girls with stones in their hands, fighting pitched battles, are an extremely scary sign of where the Kashmir Valley finds itself at the beginning of the summer of 2018.
When Israelis pushed out Arabs in 1948, they didn’t think that embittered refugees would turn into a permanent threat to their new state. This was a catastrophic miscalculation.
ISKP, a sub-continental branch of the Islamic State, is said to have vowed to extend operations in Kashmir, on encouragement from Pakistan’s security establishment.
Pakistan’s army has been a rentier force available to a reasonable bidder. It has never come to the aid of any Muslims including Palestinians or the Gazans, except making noises here and there.
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