2016 saw Mehbooba Mufti taking over as the first woman chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir and Army claiming to have conducted surgical strikes on militant camps in Pakistan administered Kashmir (PaK) after a militant attack in Uri left 19 army men dead while protests for over five months hit hard normal life and resulted in shutdown of schools and death of 94 people. The government had also to grapple with the NIT unrest, mysterious school burning incidents and blinding due to pellet gun firing issues. The only silver lining…
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