The biggest change in the Kashmiri protests has been the complete sinking of the ethnic/non-religious separatist cause in the frightening and turbulent seas of pan-Islamism.
On current evidence, it is indistinguishable from Hamas-style religious frenzy.
The Kashmir Valley has moved much further to the Right and much deeper into the embrace of Islamism.
Today, in a world after 9/11, nobody wants to risk the creation of another Islamist territory.
