Sardar Attique Khan’s crushing defeat may mark the end of the Muslim Conference, once the dominant political force in Pakistan-administered Jammu and Kashmir
Continuing political restrictions, imprisonment, curbs on expression and the failure to restore statehood raise a fundamental question: Has New Delhi’s Kashmir policy achieved what it promised?
Whether understood as metaphor or as something more layered, the remark reflects how deeply the past continued to inform the present, even in the formal setting of international diplomacy
