As the government amends the law governing the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to bring more crimes under its purview and even acts of terror originating overseas, its mission creep back home – in Jammu and Kashmir – has so far escaped scrutiny by the opposition and media alike. For the past two years – and probably for the first time since the inception of militancy in the state in the early 1990s – a central probe agency has been conducting raids in connection with the “funding of militants and separatist…
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