The horrific terror attack that claimed 26 lives a week ago in Pahalgam was another reminder that the Kashmir issue remains the primary issue in South Asia’s (and the world’s) oldest continuous conflict. Most of these attacks, especially those in Kashmir, have been with Pakistani complicity if not outright organization. Pakistani motivations for the attack can be attributed to the recent reduced tensions in the Indo-Pak conflict giving India a very prominent advantage — thanks to domestic political turmoil in Pakistan, and finally but most significantly, the lack of trust that Pakistanis have in their army.