If that were true, why press the Prime Minister for a healing touch, for an all-party delegation? Mehbooba Mufti, the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, faces a terrible identity crisis. The bigger problem is New Delhi still isn’t seeing the new normal in Kashmir. The Home Minister has made partial amends for threatening to talk to Kashmiris only when “things return to normal”. The Prime Minister has humoured her with what seems to be, unbelievable as it might seem, an intention to walk the same path Atal Bihari Vajpayee trod on Kashmir.

Source: The Hindu August 11, 2016 19:41 UTC