Christine Fair on Developments in Kashmir
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🗓️ 28 August 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On August 5, the Indian government announced that it was revoking “special status” for the states of Jammu and Kashmir, enshrined in Article 370 of its constitution. Since then, the government has instituted a lockdown in the Kashmir valley, hundreds of people have been detained, there have been mass protests, and tens of thousands of Indian troops have been deployed to the region. Professor Christine Fair of Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program sat down with Benjamin Wittes to discuss Article 370, its history, and the current state-of-play in the region.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:33.9 | The Indians have been very worried that Trump is going to cut a deal in Afghanistan that |
| 0:41.0 | puts the Taliban back in power in some way or another. |
| 0:44.1 | This is very likely to happen. |
| 0:47.1 | The Indians know from the 1990s that when the Taliban were in power, groups that attack |
| 0:51.7 | India were co-located with the Taliban. |
| 0:53.6 | They trained, they were resourced and they were ISI, which is Pakistani intelligence, officers |
| 0:59.3 | co-located with this cluster of militants. |
| 1:02.8 | So the Indians know that what happens in Afghanistan doesn't stay in Afghanistan and that India |
| 1:07.1 | more so than other neighbors has paid a direct price. |
| 1:11.2 | So there was talk about doing this as early as February, but then the Pawama crisis happened |
| 1:16.1 | than the elections occurred and it got kicked. |
| 1:19.3 | So many people in India, I think as you know, I was in India when this was going down. |
| 1:24.5 | Well placed Indians who are well connected to the government, what they felt was the immediate |
| 1:30.8 | trigger was not only the peace negotiations and the looming certainty of a bad deal coming, |
| 1:38.8 | but it was actually what happened with President Trump and Imran Khan here in DC. |
| 1:44.6 | I'm Mikhail Afogal and this is the Law Fair Podcast August 27th, 2019. |
| 1:52.0 | On August 5th, the Indian government announced that it was revoking the special status for |
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