K C Pant to Padgaonkar, What earlier panels achieved in Kashmir since 2001?

The Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh governments appointed several committees and interlocutors to hold talks with people and organisations in J&K.  The Centre’s Special Representative Dineshwar Sharma, a former chief of the Intelligence Bureau, made his first visit to Jammu and Kashmir last week, and held talks with nearly 85 delegations. The appointment of Sharma, a man with vast experience in Kashmir, comes at a time of heightened tensions in the Valley following the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani in the summer of 2016, and apprehensions over the outcome…

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