EMERGING CULT IN KASHMIR MILTANCY
Since July 2016, after the killing of Burhan Wani in an operation, Kashmir has been in the news mostly for wrong reasons. The law and order situation, as it emerged, after Burhan Wani’s elimination, has kept Kashmir on an edge. The indices which portray the Internal Security Situation, have infact been on a steady increase since 2013. However, if terror figures and the associated developments are any indicator of 'shape of things to come' we need to put our thinking cap on and start working on our plans (if any) before the situation gets even more challenging. A glance at the militancy graph will clear doubts about which way we are going. From 2006 to 2012 the terror incidents went down from 1438 to 124 which then rose to 151 in 2014 and further to 279 in 2017. Security forces casualties number came down to just 15 in 2012 (lowest ever during 28 years of militancy) from 182 in 2006. This figure rose to 47 in 2014 and further to 80 in 2017. Trend in terrorists killed depi...