SRINAGAR: Gurez valley, once hindered by inaccessibility due to cross-border shelling, is now on the brink of a remarkable transformation after connecting with Kargil’s Mushkoh valley. Following recent maintenance, the 130-kilometer road, with Kaobal Gali at 4,166.
Regiment 14 Sikh
For Amritpal Kaur, who was barely 21 when she was widowed, the last two letters from Sepoy Buta Singh are what have helped her get through some difficult times. One starts with the romantic ‘I love you’ for his wife of just over three years. The soldier, from the 14 Sikh regiment, was emotional at missing milestones in his baby daughter, Komal Preet’s life. “Komal tan hun poora boldi hovegi, mainu bhul gei hovegi, Komal da poora khayal rakhna. Komal nu laad naal padhana (Komal might be speaking properly now, she might have forgotten me. Please take care of her. Get her educated),” he wrote on May 4.
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