Shadows Over The Valley: Operation Tupac Cold War Geopolitics and the Kashmiri Pandit Exodus

<p>January 1990. Midnight.<br/>Loudspeakers tore through the silence of Kashmir.<br/>Convert. Leave. Or die.</p><p>By sunrise fear ruled the Valley. By winter&rsquo;s end over 350000 Kashmiri Pandits had fled the land that shaped their identity for centuries. To many it felt sudden. Chaotic. Inevitable.</p><p>Shadows Over the Valley reveals the truth it was none of these.</p><p>The exodus did not begin in 1990. It began a decade earlier during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. As global powers waged the Cold War militant networks were built trained and armed. When the Afghan war ended the fighters and infrastructure did not disappear. They were redirected toward Kashmir under Operation Tupac.</p><p>Tracing the movement of men money and ideology this book exposes how a global strategy quietly entered a peaceful valley. Warnings were ignored. Patterns were dismissed. An ancient community was left defenceless.</p><p>This is not just the story of one night of terror.<br/>It is the story of how calculated geopolitics dismantled Kashmir&rsquo;s oldest community and reshaped South Asia forever.</p>