IV

To deal with the insurgency in Kashmir and Naxalites in some parts of the country, the government first needs to involve locals and assuage them by meeting their genuine demands. No amount of force can quell dissent for long. In J&K, the intellectual Muslim leadership should take the lead in educating people and tell them that Islam stands for ‘peace’. Also, there should be a corpus fund to compensate the families killed in operations.

BM Singh, Amritsar