NEW DELHI: Member of Parliament and former Jammu & Kashmir deputy chief minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig , a PDP member, has cautioned that the six-decade-long conflict in Kashmir is on the verge of joining the global religious war. "Baig said the conflict, which arose out of the "direct legacy" of partition and Mohammad Ali Jinnah's two-nation theory, has changed for the worse. "It was not a part of a world vision for the revival of Khilafat (the movement for an `Islamic state') and hegemony of religious extremism. Nevertheless, the objective, whether `azadi' or accession to Pakistan, was political," Baig said.The Harvard Law graduate said the fourth stage, with a religious vision, arrived with the Arab Spring. Because of those mistakes, there was a revival of religious extremism and Khilafat across the world.

Source: Times of India August 25, 2016 00:31 UTC