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The government’s silence in the face of simmering anger in Kashmir is throwing into dangerous confrontation two crucial protagonists — the army versus unarmed Kashmiri civilian mobs.
The army, on the one hand, must intensify counter-infiltration operations to keep militants at bay until snow closes routes across the Line of Control (LoC). And, with nothing to show for months of violent street protests after the killing in July of popular local militant, Burhan Wani, Kashmiri separatists have little choice but to up the ante, if necessary by confronting the army directly.
On Wednesday, a day after four army men were
