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Serving the Militant’s Cause: The Role of Indo-Pak State Policies in Sustaining Militancy in Kashmir
Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs Pub Date : 2020-07-23 , DOI: 10.1177/2347797020939012
Syed Eesar Mehdi 1
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The essay explores three recently published books on the origins of militancy in Kashmir. In short, they all find that two causal factors are responsible for the insurgency’s ability to endure. First, the unending muscular security policy of India coupled with its explicit integrationist approach that triggered alienation by squeezing the democratic space of Kashmiris. Second, the role played by Pakistan in strongly backing the menagerie of militant groups for weakening political and territorial control of India over Kashmir. These books rely on a series of case studies of the different militant groups that have operated in Kashmir: most notably, Al-Fatah, the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Hizbul Mujahedeen (HM) and Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT). The emergence of Al-Fatah and JKLF was an offshoot of New Delhi’s iron-fist approach compounded with the dwindling of democratic space. Pakistan played a major role in the creation of HM and LeT by invoking Islam and Muslim identity as mobilising factors. These books, in their own different ways, identify a teleological shift in the thinking, strategies and operations of the militant groups, and this essay tries to extrapolate this by outlining the key markers of distinction between the old and new militancy.

中文翻译:

为激进分子的事业服务:印巴国家政策在维持克什米尔的武装中的作用

这篇文章探讨了最近出版的三本关于克什米尔好战起源的书籍。简而言之,他们都发现有两个因果因素对叛乱的承​​受能力负责。首先,印度无休止的强硬安全政策加上其明确的整合主义方法,通过挤压克什米尔的民主空间引发了异化。其次,巴基斯坦在大力支持激进组织削弱印度对克什米尔的政治和领土控制方面发挥的作用。这些书依赖于在克什米尔活动的不同激进组织的一系列案例研究:最著名的是法塔赫、查谟和克什米尔解放阵线 (JKLF)、Hizbul Mujahedeen (HM) 和 Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT )。法塔赫 (Al-Fatah) 和 JKLF 的出现是新德里铁腕做法的一个分支,再加上民主空间的缩小。巴基斯坦通过援引伊斯兰教和穆斯林身份作为动员因素,在 HM 和 LeT 的创建中发挥了重要作用。这些书以自己的不同方式确定了激进组织的思想、战略和行动的目的论转变,本文试图通过概述新旧激进主义之间区别的关键标志来推断这一点。
更新日期:2020-07-23
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