Reviving the cause
Turmoil in Kashmir has reopened an old wound and hardened anti-India sentiment in Pakistan
IT HAS been a dispiriting decade for those who dream of Pakistan taking full control of Kashmir, the Himalayan former kingdom that India claims for itself. Pakistan-based activists have long feared Islamabad’s heart is no longer in their cause. Some feel the big political parties are more interested in accepting the status quo of a divided Kashmir and focusing on trade. The Pakistani army, battling domestic extremists, is unwilling to reprise the 1990s, when it helped arm and train jihadists in Indian Kashmir (though it has refused Indian demands to crush them entirely).
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Reviving the cause”
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