From under thousands of pages of carefully crafted narrative and layers of blood-soaked snow, Kashmir’s truth is emerging at last.

The story of the unmarked graves of the Valley torn by terror and separatism for decades had been contorted to suit Islamists’ agenda, keep Indian forces on the defensive, and even justify the ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Pandits from their homeland. Indians on Pakistan’s spy agency ISI’s friend list like Gautam Navlakha and Anjana Chatterji—whom author Sandeep Balakrishna describes as the “ideological merchants of genocide against Hindus in Kashmir"—laid the intellectual foundation of violent separatism through misleading reports, books, and articles.

The International People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian-Administered Kashmir, for instance, came out with a report titled, ‘Buried Evidence’, documenting approximately 2,700 unknown, unmarked mass graves containing an estimated 2,943 bodies across 55 villages in Kashmir. The report pushed the narrative of “fake" encounter killings and alleged impunity enjoyed by the military under laws like the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).

Both Chatterji and Navlakha, pawns of ISI man in the US Ghulam Nabi Fai, were among the creators of the report. So thick was the bond that the ISI used ‘Mary’ as Anjana’s code name. Navlakha, a Maoist........

© News18