In conflict, voice of Kashmiris unheard: “For 40 years, many in India’s only Muslim-majority state have

longed for union with the neighboring Islamic state of Pakistan.

But a decade of death and destruction, wrought by a

Pakistan-supported insurgency, and by Indian forces’ harsh

efforts to suppress it, has changed all that. Most Kashmiris are

now alienated from both masters in New Delhi and

self-proclaimed saviors in Islamabad.” Noticed how generic this problem of relatively powerless Muslim populations interfacing with greater powers is in the hotspots in disparate parts of the world? Off the top of my head, as well as Kashmir there’s Chechniya, Kosovo, East Timor, Azerbaijan…Boston Globe