Srinagar, May 14 -- In one cold winter morning in the upper areas of the Kupwara district, a team of soldiers belonging to the Indian Army stops a mule track that has been in use for years to smuggle drugs across the Line of Control. The amount seized on that fateful day, which was almost three kilograms of high-quality heroin stuffed into hollow wood pieces, gives an account of history that goes way back and much darker than the decades of anti-insurgency operations that have plagued the valley. Kashmir's new war is not just being fought with ammunition; it is being fought with a powder, a syringe, and the destruction of a generation from within. According to security experts as well as army personnel having spent time in Kashmir, the dr...