Reality realised.

Omar wants the army to stay

SOLEMNITY, it would seem, fosters sanity. Having joined in the heated, competitive-politics-triggered calls for downsizing the army presence in Jammu and Kashmir, and much drumbeating against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act being applicable in his state, chief minister Omar Abdullah has now come out strongly in favour of continued army deployment: indeed he has publicly lauded the role it is playing. While the solemnity of the dedication of a martyrs memorial in Jammu,and the presence of much gold braid and red tabs, may have influenced his presentation, some of the points he made were too significant to be trivialised. Apart from pointing to …