How KASHMIR was buried in
TIHAR?
By Shujaat Bukhari fter the hanging of Muhammad Afzal Guru on February 9( Saturday) I had tweeted“ Kashmir buried Ain Tihar”. Many people mocked at it, some turned emotional, some cynical and a few critical. Since Twitter is a space of just 140 characters and for an issue such as Kashmir, that has consumed thousands of books and research papers, it was not possible for me to explain what I meant by saying so. But taking Guru, a convict in December 2001 parliament, to the gallows under a blanket of secrecy and suspicion was in-fact one of the biggest statements New Delhi had made about Kashmir ' s political problem in the last 65 years.
It was not an ordinary decision, as it has been proving
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