Rahul Pandita
There is one thing we must understand about counter-insurgency in Kashmir at this moment: every young man who has picked up a gun or is about to is under the watch of security forces. They know his moves, and in most cases, it is just a matter of days before they strike and kill the terrorist. Insurgency is at its lowest ebb for the first time after 2016. Srinagar district, which last year had become hot, is now breathing easy.
In the Indian heartland, we sometimes get agitated about now-scarce terrorist funerals and the display of support to Islamist extremism. But it must be kept in mind that it is always a Kashmiri who provides information that ultimately leads to an encounter and subsequent terrorist kill.
These things are, of course, not fool-proof — otherwise Pulwama would never have happened. But three years after the revocation of Article 370, it must be said that things are in control, insurgency-wise.
But there are a few things that New Delhi must do now to build on the work of last three years. Among terrorist sympathisers, there is a palpable fear of getting arrested; among families that support terrorism, the possibility of having property attached or losing a government job has begun to act as deterrent. The separatist deep state is deep-rooted, though, and the government has not been able to fully crack that so far. Speak to any local police officer and one realises that the hold of the radical Jamaat-e-Islami in general administration has not...
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