JOURNAL OF DEFENCE STUDIES

The Current Kashmir Imbroglio: Causes and the Way Ahead

Lieutenant General D.S. Hooda (Retd.) was former General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Indian Army’s Northern Command.

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D.S. Hooda

April-June 2018

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On 8 July 2016, a group of soldiers and policemen surrounded a house in Bumdoora village of south Kashmir. As search of the house started, one policeman was fired at and injured. By the time the encounter ended three terrorists had been killed; one of them was Burhan Wani, a Hizbul Mujahideen leader. Following the killing, Kashmir erupted in a wave of protests.