The case for revising India's counter-insurgency strategy in Kashmir

September 14, 2016 17:53

The Kashmir Valley has been the scene of a Pakistan-backed insurgency since the 1990s. The Indian Army and its associated security forces have been engaged in fighting this insurgency and assisting the civil administration in maintaining law and order.

On July 8, the Pakistani terrorist group Hizb-ul-Mujahideens commander in Kashmir, Burhan Wani, was killed in an encounter with security forces in Kashmirs Anantnag district. Wanis death plunged the state into deep turmoil, pitting Indian security forces against a large number of disenfranchised Kashmiri youth sympathetic to Wanis anti-India resistance movement and calls for jihad.

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