For over three decades, the breathtaking vistas and spiritual depth of the Kashmir Valley were systematically scarred by the toxic machinations of a failing state located to our west. Pakistan, a nation born out of a fractured identity and sustained by a pathological obsession with India, has relentlessly pursued a cowardly policy of bleeding India through a thousand cuts. This desperate neighbour, perpetually on the brink of fiscal and moral bankruptcy, found its only releva