Why Kashmir needs a new counterinsurgency strategy | ORF

"The fact that every successful encounter is causing more recruitments — the security establishment is caught between the conundrum: to kill the militants or not. If the counterinsurgency operations are momentarily halted, the militants will feel a fresh lease of confidence and start attacking the on duty and off duty security personnel, civilians and political workers thus compelling more counterinsurgency measures. If the operations continue, the cycle of violence doesn’t end."