As Govt Lifts Curfew After Month, Sopore Attack Shows Citizens Face Renewed Jihadist Threat

The government promised Kashmir that the end of Article 370 means a new start and a bright future. The path to paradise, though, is clearly a fraught, uncertain one.
The single-shot aimed to maim, not kill, the gun held less than a foot from Asma Arshid Jan’s right leg. Her father, Arshid Rather, was held down and forced to watch his daughter’s punishment before his elbow was blown apart.

Two family employees who guided the killers through the lanes to his home, Muhammad Ramzan Dar and Muhammad Arshad Dar, received bullets in their legs. The man the terrorists were looking for, Asima Jan’s grandfather, Abdul Hamid Rather, wasn’t home.
Two-and-a-half-year-old Asma is too young to understand her blood was shed for her people’s freedom or to comprehend the twisted compassion of the sadist who shot her. Everyone else in the small, north Kashmir community, though, has read the message written with her blood.