India, Aug. 1 -- While the world remains a passive observer, the staggering violence in Pakistan-occupied Jammu & Kashmir (PoJK) this week has upended the policies of Pakistan's deep State that has for long used instruments of terrorism to wage an asymmetric war against India on the Kashmir issue.

Pakistan faces the biggest challenge it has in decades to its positioning on Kashmir. On the one hand, Pakistan's army has, for years, nurtured terror groups such as the Lashkar-e-Taiba, pushing in their men across the Line of Control, into India, to unleash atrocities in the name of so-called "freedom fighters". Now, confronted with an uprising in its own backyard, Islamabad has abandoned all pretense of being interested in civil liberties or ...