Residents say the police exercise feels less like a routine survey and more like an attempt by the state to exert control over Kashmir’s religious institutions.
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Mohammad Nawaz Khan regrets the day his father, Sanaullah Khan, a retired government employee, agreed to head the managing committee of the neighbourhood mosque in Indian-administered Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar.
Khan’s worries began earlier this month after the police started distributing a four-page form, literally titled “profiling of mosques”, to their functionaries, triggering fears of increased surveillance and allegations of a discriminatory policy towards the residents in the disputed Muslim-majority region.
