How Islamist militant groups in Pakistan's foreign policy affected the Kashmir conflict
BEHIND THE LINES: The latest India-Pakistan confrontation underscores the strategic role of Pakistan's military and ISI in exacerbating Kashmir’s instability.
A GENERAL view of Muzaffarabad, in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. A Pakistani general described Kashmir as Pakistan’s ‘jugular vein,’ saying that Islamabad would ‘not forget it. We will not leave our Kashmiri brothers in their heroic struggle.’ (photo credit: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)ByJONATHAN SPYER
