Brahma Chellaney, a geostrategist and the author of nine
books, including the award-winning Water: Asia’s New Battleground,
notes:
“India’s action in revoking the special status of the
mountainous northern region known as Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) was driven not
just by domestic factors, but by U.S. President Donald Trump’s looming Faustian
bargain with the Pakistan-reared Afghan Taliban….
It is against this background that the Indian government
moved several proposals in Parliament on Monday to alter the constitutional
status of the Indian portion of J&K. This included revoking the special
powers and privileges of J&K, separating the traditionally Buddhist Ladakh
region from J&K, and converting the rest of J&K (made up of
Muslim-dominated Kashmir Valley and Hindu-majority Jammu) from a state to a
federal territory. In addition, it proposed abrogating a misogynist clause
permitting women to be stripped of their rights in J&K if they married
outsiders.”
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