A CAMPAIGN OF TERROR.

Feigning outrage at the killing of Pakistan-backed Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani, Pakistan's civilian-led government decried his killing by Indian security forces as 'deplorable and condemnable'. This group is considered to be a terrorist organisation by the United States, the European Union and India alike. This conniption once again exposed Pakistan's unstinting support for the zoo of Islamist terrorists that it uses to achieve its foreign policy objectives in India, Afgahnistan and elsewhere. The timing of this charade is not coincidental: it is contemporaneous with mounting criticisms over Pakistani Human Rights abuses in Baluchistan as it tries to crush any and all opposition to the infamous 'China Pakistan Economic Corridor'. Pakistan explicitly counters criticism over its activities in Baluchistan with reference to Indian security force's killings in Kashmir. This is yet another Pakistani false equivalence.
It must be said bluntly that in Kashmir, Pakistan has no legal equities. Neither the Indian Independence Act of 1947 nor the Radcliffe Boundary Commission accord Pakistan any right to Kashmir. As is well known, the Maharaja of Kashmir Hari Singh only acceded to India after Pakistan dispatched irregular forces to seize the terrain by force. As the work of Shuja Nawaz - the brother of a deceased army chief - makes clear, these were not non-state actors. In its effort to seize Kashmir through warfare in 1947-48, 1965 and 1999 and by supporting a menagerie of terrorists since 1947 and an intense proxy war since 1989, Pakistan has demonstrated that it actually has little regard for the Kashmiris themselves.
As the Pakistanis sought to exploit the indigenous uprising that began in 1989, it raised and dispatched Deopbandi and Salafist terrorist organisations such as Jaish-e-Muhammad and Lashkar-e-Toiba respectively, precisely because they have no regard for Kashmiri culture and beliefs. Whereas their Kashmiri proxies were most reticent  

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