PUNCHLINE Salahuddin and Beyond   By Z.G. Muhammad     On Saturday morning, the moment I sat at my desk to write my weekly column the news alert on a corner of the computer read: “No change in Kashmir policy, says the US.” The news item, with Washington dateline, read that the US State Department has stated that the designation of Hizbul Mujahedeen leader Syed Salahuddin as a “global terrorist” does not reflect a change in the US policy on Kashmir which it sees a disputed territory. The State Department has designated Salah­uddin a “global terrorist” for some of his statement in 2016 in which he had allegedly “vowed to block any peaceful resolution to the Kashmir conflict etc.”    Many analysts failed to mark two important points in the US statement. One it has described … Read entire article »