Srinagar, Aug. 31 -- There was a time when Yasin Malik reinvented himself. The guns were set aside, the fiery slogans softened, and suddenly he was presenting himself as a man of dialogue. Photographs showed him in crisp white attire, seated across visiting diplomats, talking about non-violence as if he had discovered Gandhi in his heart. For a moment, the world seemed willing to believe it. But Kashmiris who had lived through the blood-soaked early 1990s knew better. They had seen the other face. A Militant Before a Politician Malik's roots were not in peace. They were in Maisuma's narrow lanes, where JKLF men carried out kidnappings and targeted killings. He was no bystander - he was at the centre of it. From the abduction of Rubaiya Sa...