"The silence of a narrow alley in Srinagar, the main city of Indian-administered Kashmir, is broken by the rehearsed beckoning of street vendors and the restless cries of two little children. Auntie, please take me to my mother; the police took her away, shouts three-year-old Hussein, as he and his sister Noorie, a year younger than him, cling to the window of their one-room house, their faces pressed against rusted iron bars."
"The family's ordeal began a week after half a dozen gunmen, a couple of them alleged to be Pakistani nationals, stormed a scenic tourist spot in Indian-administered Kashmir's Pahalgam area and shot 26 people dead on April 22, 2025 in one of the worst attacks in the disputed region. The Muslim-majority region of Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan, though the nuclear-armed neighbours claim it in full, while regional superpower China also controls a sliver of Kashmir's land. Since India's independence from British rule and its partition to create the state of Pakistan in 1947, the two countries have fought two of their three full-scale wars over Kashmir."
"In the late 1980s, an armed rebellion against New Delhi's rule erupted on the Indian side, which has since claimed tens of thousands of lives, most of them civilians. The rebellion saw the deployment of nearly a million Indian soldiers, making it one of the world's most militarised regions. The rebels aim to either carve an independent nation out of Kashmir or merge the region with Muslim-m"
About seven months after a brutal Pahalgam attack that killed 26 people, Indian authorities deported roughly 800 Pakistani nationals, including women who were separated from their children and spouses. Children in Srinagar continue to call for mothers who were forcibly taken away, while families remain unable to reunite. The incident occurred against the backdrop of a long-standing, heavily militarised Kashmir dispute shared by India, Pakistan and a small portion controlled by China. The region has endured decades of armed rebellion, tens of thousands of deaths and repeated India–Pakistan wars, deepening humanitarian and political tensions.
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