Kashmir Militancy After 370: An Assessment of Pakistan’s Proxy War
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Title
Kashmir Militancy After 370: An Assessment of Pakistan’s Proxy War
Subject
Kashmir
India
Pakistan
Article 370
South Asia
Militancy
Insurgency
Description
India’s peaceful abrogation of Article 370 was a major geopolitical setback and an intelligence failure for Pakistan. In one stroke, India severely dented Pakistan’s complex and layered infrastructure of militancy. Contrary to expectations when there was no widespread backlash against it, the ISI-masterminds pressurised the local terrorist organisations and Islamist groups to execute a large-scale terror attack or orchestrate a massive civil uprising. However, when they failed, clueless and perplexed Pakistan made drastic strategic and tactical changes in running Kashmir’s militancy to gain its lost ground. The most significant change was to minimise the role of local terrorist groups like Hizbul Mujahidin (HM) and strengthen the foreign terrorist groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM), and Al Badr as the leading groups. While to elude the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) scrutiny, many front organisations were created such as the LeT-led The Resistance Front (TRF) that emerged as the most active offshoot, claiming most terror attacks after 370. Another significant development is the emergence of Turkey as a critical stakeholder in Kashmir’s conflict theatre- working on multiple fronts ranging from militancy, diplomacy to inciting civil unrest. Given this context, the paper discusses and critically analyses the strategic and tactical changes ushered in by Pakistan in Kashmir’s proxy war after the abrogation of Article 370.
Creator
Pandya, Abhinav
Source
CLAWS Journal; Vol. 14 No. 1 (2021): Summer 2021; 118-143
2319-5177
Publisher
Centre For Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), New Delhi, India
Date
2021-06-30
Rights
Copyright (c) 2021 Center For Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), New Delhi, India
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Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
Type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
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Citation
Abhinav Pandya, Kashmir Militancy After 370: An Assessment of Pakistan’s Proxy War, Centre For Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), New Delhi, India, 2021, accessed November 22, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/80