New Delhi, July 12 -- At a time when al Qaeda is facing an existential crisis and has been entirely marginalised in the global Islamist terrorist movement, and at a time when its incipient proxy in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K), the Ansar Ghazwat ul Hind (AGH), has been virtually wiped out barely two years after its formation, Ayman al Zawahiri, the current amir (chief) of al Qaeda, has issued a renewed call for jihad in Kashmir. Interestingly, he dismisses the Pakistanbacked 'jihad' as opportunistic, "a secular rivalry over borders", condemns Pakistan as a puppet of the United States, and warns fighters in Kashmir that the "Pakistan army and government" are only "interested in exploiting the mujahideen for specific political objectives, only to dump or persecute them later". Zawahiri exhorts Kashmiris to "inflict "unrelenting blows" on the Indian Army and the government to "bleed" the economy and make the country suffer."...