T his is where also governance and coordination in counter-insurgency operations also become imperative. The key is realising that, in the long run, allowing the insurgency in the state to become a money spinning business like in India s North-East is detrimental to national interests. People will return, this applies to Kahmiris who have left the State and tourists, only when the atmosphere is calm. Too much should not be expected from those who left Kashmir in the early phases of the insurgency and have settled elsewhere. It is those who are living in refugee camps that the government must focus on.
P rovide incentives to return.
Rebuild houses and villages ravaged by decades of insurgency. Take up road building on a large scale. And get people to participate. All this is premised on violence receding from the Kashmiri psyche. Once India is clear about the internal-external dynamic and seeks a solution on these lines, evolving a national consensus on Jammu and Kashmir may become easier.