Thursday, March 14, 2013

Kashmir is on the boil, once again...

For many people in the Kashmir Valley, Wednesday’s deadly attack on an Indian security camp, which left five security personnel and two militants dead, was not a surprise.

Some describe it as the lid finally blowing of a pressure cooker that had been waiting to explode since the Indian government’s execution of a local man, Muhammad Afzal, for his role in the 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament.

There is a growing sentiment in the Kashmir Valley that peaceful protests are no longer effective, Gul Mohammad Wani, a political science professor at the University of Kashmir, explained .

“This surprise attack has an immediate context and that context is Afzal Guru’s hanging,” Mr. Wani said. “Kashmir is on the boil.” Full story...

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