News Analysis SRINAGAR—With the Taliban taking over Afghanistan, serious concerns have arisen over the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir, India’s northernmost territory. It has a Muslim majority. With a recorded history of Kashmiri insurgents getting support from across the border in many sanctuaries in Pakistan and with their reported Taliban links, there are concerns about possible security threats to this region that will engage a substantial number of Indian security forces. Taliban has conducted itself diplomatically since taking over power in Kabul and has called Kashmir a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan, but it also once talked about raising its voice for Muslims anywhere, including from Kashmir. Kashmir has remained a major bilateral issue between India and Pakistan and the two neighbors have fought multiple wars over the region since its inception. India maintains that Jammu and Kashmir is its integral part as it legally acceded with it …
How the Taliban in Afghanistan Could Bolster Conflict in India’s Kashmir
September 29, 2021
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