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The Risks Of Divide-To-Integrate

Repression in Kashmir and Zionist occupation of Pale­s­tinian territories are always considered exemplars of how Muslims are subjected to indignities and human rights violations. Two statements by the Organisation of Islamic Coo­peration (OIC) showed deep disquiet over Kashmir바카라a concern also voiced by terrorist organisations such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (IS), besides the Kashmir-centric mili­tant groups. There is unanimity among political and militant Isla­mist organisations that its division into two entities, under tighter repressive central control, is an insult to the only Muslim-majority state in India. Thus Kashmir may receive priority attention in future, coa­lescing militant efforts, as we saw in the past when groups went through cyclical shifts, vacillating between conflict and cooperation.

While Ayman al-Zawahari exhorted Muslims to inflict 바카라unrelenting blows바카라 on the Indian Army and government, the IS (Khorasan) saw 바카라fertile ground바카라 in Kashmir for their future subversion. That Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had lived in Afghanistan as member of the Ishaq group from 1996 to 2000 lends credence to this trend. IS(K) was responsible for 1,511 deaths in Afghanistan and 706 killings in Pakistan during 2014-18 through their 11 associates in the AfPak region. There are reports that IS(K) wants to lead the Kashmir rebels.

We have seen evidence of the creeping presence of IS in and around India. Our National Investigation Agency (NIA) had arrested some from South India for helping the Sri Lankan Easter Sunday bombings that killed 250 people. Although the Sri Lankan police had told a parliamentary committee last month that there was no direct evidence of IS connection with the killings, they admitted that the killers were 바카라inspired바카라 by the IS ideology and the module controller had contacted IS after the killings.

The US Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at West Point had pointed out in December 2018 that the IS(K)바카라s success in the Af-Pak region is their 바카라high end바카라 or 바카라low end바카라 cooperation from its allies. This June, our NIA chargesheeted 10 members of a pro-IS module known as Harkat-ul-Harb-e-Islam for attempting to bomb the national capital region. Ano­ther group known as 바카라Islamic State in Jammu & Kashmir바카라 (ISJK) was charged the same month, giving official confirmation of the IS(Khorasan), which considers Kashmir a 바카라vilayat바카라.

According to a disturbing report published on July 21 in Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Iran is influencing 1.4 million Shias in the Kashmir Valley following Khamenei바카라s call to classify the 바카라people of Kashmir as well as Bahrain and Burma바카라s Rohingyas바카라 as part of the 바카라axis of resistance바카라. The report also said some Kashmiris were recruited as pro-Assad Shia forces and trained by Iran바카라s Revolutionary Guards.

US President Trump바카라s trust in Pakistan PM Imran Khan바카라s leadership role in persuading the Afghan Taliban to facilitate American troop withdrawal has indeterminately changed the Kashmir security matrix. Kashmir can now be expected to be the first victim, with or without our army presence, if Taliban rules Afghanistan under Islamabad바카라s control.

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The writer is a former special secretary, Cabinet Secretariat. Views are personal.

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