The recent crisis between India and Pakistan coincides with an upturn in militant recruits in Indian-held Kashmir.
An entrance to the campus of the University of Kashmir, where Mohammad Rafi Bhat taught in the sociology department before his dramatic turn. By Joanna Slater Joanna Slater Foreign correspondent covering South Asia Email Bio Follow March 27 at 3:00 AM SRINAGAR, India — He was the kind of professor students adored, always ready to help with books, advice or small loans.
One of the recent recruits was Adil Ahmed Dar, a 19-year-old suicide bomber who nearly sparked a war between the two nuclear-armed neighbors. Dar drove an explosives-laden vehicle into a security convoy on Feb. 14, killing 40 paramilitary personnel. It was the worst such attack in the history of the insurgency, and Jaish-e-Muhammad, a Pakistan-based terrorist group, claimed responsibility for the bombing.
Kashmir could be “hurtling towards a heightened phase of terrorism,” according to an assessment recently published by the South Asia Terrorism Portal, a Delhi-based website that tracks militant groups in the region. Even as the Indian government has clamored for action against Pakistan, “what is being completely overlooked are strategies to restore internal stability and sober governance” to Jammu and Kashmir, India’s only Muslim-majority state.
The lure of militancy for local youths is a “cause of worry,” said an Indian security official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter with the media. Militants have used social media to “glamorize gun culture,” he said, while at the same time, “the world has become smaller.” Events elsewhere in India or around the world now reverberate in Kashmir, feeding a sense that Muslims are under attack.
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