As Centre ends Ramzan ceasefire, violence likely to surge in Kashmir

Given how doggedly New Delhi went after the Kashmiri separatists, did it expect them to respond positively to the ceasefire offer?

Exactly a month after it was announced, the government of India has called off the cessation of proactive counter-insurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir, or the internal ceasefire in Kashmir. This shouldn’t surprise anyone as this was a ceasefire waiting to collapse. The ceasefire had no ownership, nor was there a well-thought out pathway to peace or dialogue in Kashmir. There were no clearly defined objectives, nor was New Delhi willing to put its political weight behind the ceasefire. The Bharatiya Janata Party-led government’s ceasefire offer was a short-term strategy to silence the increasing demands from its coalition partner in