The government — rightly so — is alarmed at large swathes of South Kashmir slipping out of the control of the local administration. What is worrying though is the level of confusion and contradictions evident, both in public debate and in the framing of the Kashmir policy. For any government, the sheer complexity of what’s unfolding in Kashmir does make a linear response difficult. In continuing ironies of Kashmir, Hizbul Chief Syed Salahuddin’s son, a state government employee, was among those saved recently in a terror strike on a government facility. At the moment the Kashmir conundrum is trapped in a dangerous web of paradoxes and confusion.

Source: Hindustan Times September 09, 2016 15:33 UTC