The Jihad Game: A Long-Overdue Masterpiece on Kashmir’s Terrorist Challenge

Dr. Ramesh Taimiri Abhinav Pandya’s The Jihad Game: Inside Pakistan’s Dark War, published recently, is a book long overdue. It stands as perhaps the finest work on the terrorist challenge in Kashmir since 1990. Earlier books on the theme—such as Manoj Joshi’s The Lost Rebellion (late 1990s), Sati Sahni’s jour nalistic Kashmir Underground, and Praveen Swami’s…