India, April 23 -- For Kashmir watchers, the brazen terror attack on tourists near Pahalgam on Tuesday amid US vice president JD Vance's trip to India brought back memories of the Chittisinghpura massacre of 25 years ago during a visit by then US president Bill Clinton.

Then, as now, the focus of the terrorists appeared to be on dragging the Kashmir issue back to the international stage, though India has largely stymied such efforts with the scrapping of Jammu and Kashmir's special status in 2019 and a sustained crackdown on terrorist groups active in the region.

With reports from Kashmir suggesting that The Resistance Front (TRF), an offshoot of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), has claimed responsibility for the attack on tourists...