How Pakistan’s Military Lost Kashmir
“In Kashmir, Pakistan was waging its own war, alone.
And by sponsoring extreme militant groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and
Jaish-e-Mohammed, Pakistan crowded out genuine Kashmiri movements of
self-determination. It also did little to endear itself to local Muslim sentiments:
Mainstream Kashmiri Islam is much more deeply steeped in Sufi mysticism and is
ideologically opposed to the kind of reactionary fundamentalism that drives the
majority of jihadi terrorist groups that Pakistan was sponsoring”.
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