The Unheard Voices of Kashmir
While India and Pakistan argue and fight over the fate of Kashmir, is anyone listening to the Kashmiris?
December 24, 2020
Indian policemen guard as a Kashmiri child watches from behind a window near the house of a leader of the People’s Democratic Party where a personal security officer was killed in a rebel attack in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020.
Credit: AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan
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At least 15 people were killed when Pakistan and India exchanged cross-border shelling across the Line of Control on November 13. Indian shells reached well into the Pakistani-administered territory of Kashmir, burning villages in the Neelum Valley. While locals die on both sides of the divide, both New Delhi and Islamabad accuse each other of violating the 2003 ceasefire. The Kashmir region is claimed in its entirety by both South Asian nuclear powers; each occupies part of the region with the Line of