Nerendra Modi’s refusal to speak to the separatists and his party’s anti-Muslim agenda fuel a vicious cycle of violence and retaliationOn Friday,the four-day-long military flare-up between Pakistan and India began winding down, with Islamabad handing back an Indian air force pilot taken captive by the Pakistan army two days earlier. He had been shot down in the first aerial fighter combat between the two South Asian enemies since a full-scale war in 1971.
Yet, and forgotten in the Indian euphoria is the fact that Kashmir,where the deaths of 40 security men in a suicide bomb attack final month triggered this latest crisis, continues to simmer. Even as the pilot walked free, or four policemen died in an encounter with Kashmiri militants.
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Source: theguardian.com