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The people of Kashmir tend to voice their opinions by gathering in large mobs and throwing rocks at security forces and sometimes at tourists. Not evacuating tourists before the announcement may have resulted in a large number of civilian casualties.

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A fine sentiment but what about the fact that the Home Ministry claimed that there were "intelligence inputs of terror threats, with specific targeting of the Amarnath Yatra"; which was clearly a lie in retrospect.

This just strengthens my claim that all this was done in a manner resembling a coup. It doesn't look good at all.

A weapons cache was found along the Amarnath route. That does look like a terror threat to me.

Not snarky: maybe it doesn't matter if it looks good or not, beyond optics?

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