Two grenade attacks hit Indian Kashmir city
The two blasts came after a peaceful summer in Muslim-majority Kashmir, where a 20-year insurgency against rule from New Delhi has often brought normal life to a halt amid riots, clashes with security forces and curfews.
A spokesman said that in the first attack on Tuesday three policeman were hurt, while minutes later the second attack nearby missed its target and caused no injuries.
Omar Abdullah, the Chief Minister of Kashmir, announced last week that emergency laws imposed in the state in 1990 that allow security forces to act with near-impunity are to be partially withdrawn due to improved security.
Federal army and paramilitary officials are opposed to revoking the law.
Militant violence has dropped sharply in Kashmir since India and Pakistan, which each hold the region in part but claim it in full, started a peace process in 2004.
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AFSPA must be withdrawn so that the state of emergency is perceptibly replaced by an air of normalcy, peace and development. The act has served India well and should now go. The problem is the misuse of this revoking by the islamic exclusivist. The security establisment would have to develop a mechanism to segregate a "fasaadi" from the common man. The common man in Jammu and Kashmir wants peace and development. They are tired of war and death and blasts and raids and all the chest thumping sloganeering politics. The politics there is still based on all these. So a new brand of people oriented politics has to take form which would require further empowerment of the common man. That is why we should not get misguided by these kind of intimidating blasts and revoke the AFSPA. To take care of the "fasaadis" the army may, i guess, strengthen its MIS, involve the empowered people who would have a stake in the peace and utilize the technology prowess of India ( both hardware and software ) to preempt and counter realtime the "fasaadi" agenda. But before everything and along with the revoking of AFSPA the kashmiri pundits should be returned their rightful place in kashmir Valley. Reversing the ethnic cleansing will be key to a future of peace and development. This is, i guess, the real acid test.
Now AFSPA must not be withdrawn.