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Sunday, June 3, 2012

Kashmir: Douse The Fire, Current affairs, NewAgeIslam.com

Current affairs
Kashmir: Douse The Fire
By Sumit Ganguly
13 Aug 2008,

Unless the government of India manages to deftly contain this crisis, it has the potential to expand and precipitate a larger, more dangerous conflict. Far too many parties to this conflict are seeking to manipulate and exploit it to meet their parochial political ends. Unfortunately, none of them realise that they may be setting in motion events that they could eventually fail to control with disastrous consequences for themselves as well as others.

The principal miscreants in this unfolding crisis are, of course, a small group of Islamist zealots who chose to shamelessly exploit a highly emotive issue. One could, of course, hardly expect them to act with rectitude. Increasingly marginalised in recent years, they were on the lookout to seize upon an issue that could easily capture the popular imagination and stoke fears.

Once they set this process in motion, the All-Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC), which has long confronted the prospect of political irrelevance, simply could not resist the opportunity to seize this issue. All the while it has expressed its misgivings about every initiative on the part of the government of India while boosting some vague, undefined notion of self-determination. Fastening public attention on the land transfer issue suddenly gave this moribund organisation a new lease of life.

http://newageislam.com/kashmir--douse-the-fire/current-affairs/d/548


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