Opinion: Opinion | History Is Repeating Itself In Pakistan's Rawalkot, And India Should Be Worried

As Delhi and much of north India exploded into a frenzy of fireworks for Diwali, an entirely different type of firing was going on just across the border. Reports showed visuals of houses burnt to the ground in Rawalkot, as security forces fired upon protesters, even as crowds came out in protest as bodies of those killed were brought out.

Anger against the military has grown, and rather unusually, even against the United States; protesters condemned Washington for blindly supporting the Pakistani army. It is all rather boiling up unexpectedly, marking yet another periphery of chaos.

This is troublesome even for India. It could so easily spill over in unexpected ways.