Mark Baker

Mark Baker is a reporter for The Age, a newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia. In the following viewpoint, he interviews several leading political figures in Kashmir and describes how the growing cycle of violence has devastated the region’s economy and society. Baker argues that both Pakistan and India have victimized Kashmir and mistreated its people. Pakistan has used the region to fight a proxy war against India and has supported terrorists in the region. Indian forces, meanwhile, have behaved like an army of occupation in Kashmir and have subjected its people to numerous human rights abuses. The tragedy of Kashmir is that neither India nor Pakistan act in the best interests of Kashmir’s people, Baker concludes.

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