J&K: Separatists campaign against Zubin Mehta's concert

Separatist opposition creates uncertainty over a concert to be conducted by Zubin Mehta in the Valley. Even before the outbreak of secessionist militancy in 1989, events seen as having the potential to alter the ‘disputed’ status of Jammu and Kashmir became enmeshed in controversy — for instance, the international cricket match in Srinagar in 1983 that culminated unforeseeably in the creation of an organised movement that saw Mushtaqul Islam floating the Hizbullah in 1990.

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