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LoC

Leepa Lamp Post

As Hilal Ahmad went visiting a Leepa Valley shrine wrested from Pakistan in 1971, he found two specific regiments of rival armies facing each...

Trading Nightmares

Recent onion crisis briefly brought LoC trade back into focus when truckloads of onions reached Kashmir markets and eased soaring prices. But ban and...
Soldiers patrolling near LoC Fence

An Imaginary Divide?

Line of Control has historically been a cartographic imagination. But the fence that emerged around the divide in the last few years has started...
Widow of Hemraj Singh mourning the brutal slaying of her husband

The Rival Games

Beheading soldiers and taking heads as war trophies is just one dimension of the macabre rivalries of the two armies manning Kashmir ‘frontiers’ since...
Abdul Rashid Deeder examines the damages caused by Pakistani shell to his house -- Photo: Abid Nabi

In Times of Peace

As India and Pakistan trade barbs over the brutalization of their soldiers in renewed hostilities on LoC, Sameer Yasir treks to the non-descript Charunda...
Parried Peacemakers

Parried Peacemakers

In the heightened tensions between India and Pakistan on the LoC, the United Nations Military Observers Group for India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) is unable...
A woman cries as she hugs her brother after his surrender in Rampur

Survival Tales

Trained across the LoC, they fought in Kashmir, were jailed and set free. Some of them surrendered too. But that didn’t end the uncertainty...
Troopers patrolling the Loc -- Photo: Bilal Bahadur

Cementing The Divide

As experts are flying to Srinagar with suggestions and ideas, the invisible LoC is expected to shed a shaky fence for a stronger, impregnable...
Return of the Prodigal

The ‘Other Side’ of Romance

Once they crossed the LoC, Kashmiri youth were the new heroes in Pakistani society. Many married, raised families and lived a happy life. As...
LOC TRADE

Barter’s Fear Factor

Traders who barter select merchandise at two windows on the LoC since October 2008 have managed an overall turnover of Rs 1600 crore since...

RETURN OF THE NATIVE

Many of the around 3000 Kashmiri militants stranded on the other side of LoC are returning along with their wives and children. SYED ASMA...

The Fight Within

The fight between the officers and jawans at a strategic base near China border, police investigations reveal, was much more than – what the...

Records of Divide

Decolonisation of the Indian subcontinent was also accompanied with redrawing of national boundaries. The phenomenon did not just change the course of history but...

As He Witnessed History’s Grief

Passengers who rode the first trans-Kashmir bus service in nearly 60 years were Friday enjoying emotional family reunions, visiting ancestral homes and getting to know life on the “other side” of the divided state.

Reporting The Other Side

They are stationed high in the Himalayas to guard against the enemy, but with peace reigning on the Kashmir frontier Indian troops have one eye on Pakistani positions and another on their TVs.