ISLAMABAD – A former Indian army general has hit out at the successiveIndian governments over failure in Occupied Kashmir.
Lieutenant General Panag said that army had created a suitable environmentto resolve the long-pending Kashmir issue, but the elected governments ofthe country “failed to find any solution to it”.
According to Kashmir Media Service (KMS), Lt Gen (r) H S Panag, who wasposted as General Officer Commanding of the Indian army’s Northern Command,Udhampur in Kashmir, wrote in *The Print* that the “unpopular coalitiongovernment could not provide the healing touch in Jammu and Kashmir”.
“The current situation in Jammu and Kashmir, particularly in the valley, isa classic example of our dithering political strategy,” Panag said in hiscolumn.
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Constructing his argument over the resolution of Kashmir issue, he said theIndian army had created an enabling environment for politics to take thecentre stage and resolve the problem. “Politics did come to the fore, butinstead of a solution, we saw the revival of insurgency.”
