Why Kashmiri Pandits May Never Return To The Valley theprint.in

On 2 August this year, the government of Jammu and Kashmir (under President’s rule) canceled the annual Amarnath Yatra. There were “intelligence inputs of terror threats, with specific targeting of the Amarnath Yatra,” it said. The security situation must have been really, really bad because this was the first time the Amarnath Yatra was canceled altogether.

Yet, the security situation was good enough for the Narendra Modi government to make Article 370 null and void, as also Article 35A, divide the state into two union territories and place hundreds of pro-India political actors in jail.