SRINAGAR – The rise of Hindu nationalism in India, which has deeplyalienated its Muslim minority and taken an anti-Muslim direction, ispushing more people in the India-held Kashmir to join the freedom struggle.

According to leading US daily, the New York Times, many top members of theruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party have a very questionablerecord when it comes to treating Muslims.

The report said that the new politics in Indian occupied Kashmir hassparred more people to turn against the government.

Describing Kashmir as one of Asia’s most dangerous flashpoints, whereKashmiris have struggled for freedom for several decades, it said bothPakistan and India are now nuclear powers and have fought three warsbetween them.

The report observed that hatred in the Indian-held Kashmir against theIndian rule is growing and now the resistance inside the Indian areas isoverwhelmingly homegrown.