NEW YORK, Sep 03 (APP): Pro-India politicians in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) feel “betrayed, disillusioned and disenfranchised” by New Delhi’s unilateral action to end the disputed state’s special status on August 5, 2019, the New York Times said in a report on the situation in the valley. “We used to tell the world that Kashmir belongs to India,” Peerzada Lateef Shah, one of the politicians the newspaper described as “moderates” who now repents his past stance, was quoted as saying. “And then we were crushed under its jackboots,” Lateef Shah, now demoralized, said in the report, which points out that he had narrowly survived an assassination attempt last year by “Kashmiri separatists” who saw him as a traitor. “Today,” the report said, “Mr. Shah wonders whether his life’s work was a waste.” The Times said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi justified the move to annex Kashmir by saying that its status had impeded development and boosted separatism. “Instead,” the report said, “Mr. Modi’s move seems to have further undermined the class of democratic political moderates long sympathetic to the Indian state who were already targets of Kashmiri militants.” Without them, the Indian government will find it … Continue reading Pro-India politicians in Kashmir feel betrayed by Modi’s actions: NYT