The slugfest over NSA level talks between India and Pakistan has brought into focus Kashmir’s separatist leadership after New Delhi asserted that any engagement between Islamabad and pro-freedom leaders was unacceptable to it. Last time, the separatists were at the centre-stage of Kashmir politics in the summer of 2010 when an anti-India uprising swept the Valley. That time an unnerved New Delhi rushed a parliamentary panel to Kashmir to reach out to the pro-freedom leadership, as a fire-fighting tactic. As war of words between New Delhi and Islamabad resulted in…
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