What explains Mehbooba Mufti’s sudden change in stance? The Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister whom we saw on Thursday bears little resemblance to the one who a month back seemed almost apologetic that Indian security forces had killed Burhan Wani. Breaking her 20-day silence period following the Hizbul Mujaheedin commander’s death (an unusual reticence for a chief minister whose state was in throes of a violent turmoil), the PDP chief had appeared before the media on 28 July, also a Thursday, and suggested that security forces were unaware of Wani’s…
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