Takshashila Discussion Document - Restoring Order in Jammu & Kashmir

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Executive Summary

The immediate goal for New Delhi and Srinagar should be to restore peace and security in the violence-affected districts of Jammu & Kashmir so that normal activity can resume. This has to be done by suppressing violence, arresting ring-leaders of protesters and actively countering separatists’ plans to direct the pace and scope of social, economic, political and religious life by issuing protest calendars.

The political process in the Valley can only be reactivated fully once the security situation has been brought under control. However certain steps can be initiated to restart the political process immediately. These will have to be undertaken at many levels simultaneously within the state.

This paper presents a thirteen point plan to restore order in Jammu & Kashmir state.

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Sushant K Singh
Sushant K Singh

Sushant K Singh was a Fellow for Defence Policy at Takshashila. He is currently a Senior Fellow at Centre for Policy Research (CPR). He was a lecturer in political science at Yale University (Fall 2019, 2021) and the Deputy Editor of The Indian Express, reporting on strategic affairs, national security and international affairs. He won the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Prize for Excellence in Journalism for 2017 and 2018. Prior to becoming a journalist, he served in the Indian Army for two decades.

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