Opinion | How PM Narendra Modi Transformed Kashmir's Security In 7 Years

India's security architecture evolved after that strategic reset, and it changed the operating environment for both terrorists and their handlers across the border

On August 5, 2019, the Modi government abrogated Article 370 and reorganised Jammu and Kashmir into a Union Territory. The move generated political debate at the time. Seven years on, its security implications can be assessed with far greater clarity. It enabled a different model of counter-terrorism, intelligence coordination and border management, one built to shape the battlefield rather than merely react to it.

India’s security architecture evolved after that strategic reset, and it changed the operating environment for both terrorists and their handlers across the border.

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Before 2019, much of the security apparatus in Jammu and Kashmir was consumed by recurring cycles of unrest including stone pelting, shutdowns, and counter-insurgency operations run in response to whatever flared up that week. Strikes and shutdown calls, once a Friday ritual enforced by separatist diktat, have since dropped to almost zero. Law and order incidents, which ran into the thousands........

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