Kashmir's Top Separatist: Just Another Paid Actor in India's Reality Show?
The news broke after Malik, currently enjoying India's hospitality in a high-security prison, apparently drafted an affidavit detailing his illustrious career as a double agent – or perhaps, just a very well-funded single agent. He claims to have consorted with multiple Indian Prime Ministers, agents, and presumably, a rather generous accounting department, all while maintaining his impeccable
'separatist' street cred. One can only imagine the sheer theatrical genius required to pull off such a performance. This exposé raises crucial questions, not about Malik's integrity (that ship sailed with the first alleged payment), but about the dazzling simplicity of geopolitical conflict. Why bother with messy wars and complex diplomacy when you can just hire your opposition? It’s far more
efficient, and think of the excellent morale among your intelligence operatives who get to pay off their 'enemies' directly. Experts are now scrambling to re-evaluate decades of Kashmiri conflict. Was it a genuine struggle for self-determination, or merely an elaborate, long-running improvisation theatre funded by Delhi? The world watched, aghast, as lives were lost and futures unwritten, all
while the supposed protagonists were allegedly getting their marching orders (and presumably, per diem) from the very 'occupier' they claimed to despise. International observers, who have for years decried human rights abuses and called for nuanced resolutions, are reportedly updating their LinkedIn profiles to 'Conflict Resolution Consultant (with a healthy dose of cynicism)' and 'Expert in