The biggest challenge and the top priority in Kashmir are to de-radicalise Kashmiri youth and militants and “prevent it from turning into a Syria of India”, Dineshwar Sharma, the newly-named interlocutor for talks in Jammu and Kashmir, has said. An old Kashmir hand, who headed the Intelligence Bureau for two years from December 2015, Sharma said that his mission to bring an “end to violence would also include talking to anyone, even a rickshaw puller or a cart puller who can contribute so that peace is ushered in the state…
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