Kashmir's conflict and the untold stories of the Half widows
Kashmir :
Kashmir is a land full of beauty if nature. Since the time of partition between India and Pakistan, Kashmir and the people of Kashmir are in trouble. Pakistan has always supported the motive of independent elections for the people of Kashmir so they can live according yo their own will, but India was never in the favour of fair elections. Since independence, India has played the role of devil in the region full of angels and love. Thousands of innocent children, men and women are brutally martyred. India has always wanted to suppress the Kashmiri people of their basic rights and needs. In all these years Kashmir has fought for its right of living and freedom. People are not safe even in their houses. Everywhere Indian army keep patrolling the streets and towns and kill innocent people.
Sodomized Children :
Women are raped and children are assaulted sexually as well as physically, but no one raise a voice for the human rights. Shelling, use of ballet guns and poisonous gases are the very brutal act of taking lives all over the area. More than a months has passed in curfew, people are dying and are killed. There is lack of food, medicine and safety. India has always imposed its violent and wild ideas of taking lives on the people of Kashmir.
DETAINED IN KASHMIR :
From politicians to activists to children, India is running out of space for its prisoners.
SRINAGAR Kashmir Around the Soura neighborhood of Srinagar the capital of Indian-administered Kashmir civilians have spade false-hated and erect wood, tin, and barbed wire blockades. Farhan Mohammad a 26-year-old local whose name has been changed, notified, dozen will die when the forces comes.
These young men have secure all the entry and exit points of their area which is home to at least 500 families in the hopes of securing the civilians inside from arrest by the Indian Army.
They were joined to the existing half a million already there. Security forces made quick work of arresting and delaying prominent politicians, business people, activists, and lawyers.
Such arrests only further isolate Kashmirs, especially the young, who could turn to more brutal means of protest in future.
About 400 of the thousands of people apprehend are fasten in makeshift jails around Srinagar One of the jails is located in the Centaur Hotel inside Sher-e-Kashmir International Conference Centre on the banks of the picturesque Dal Lake. A regional political leader who’s according to his family, was arrested on Aug. 7 at around 1:30 p.m. when police officers came to the family’s home.
Freedom fighter of Kashmir :
The arrest, one member of his family said,. The police officials were present tea. After tea, they put Ahmed’s father, Muhammad Khalil, a veteran politician and ex-minister, under house detained. Ahmed was pulled to a local police station in south Kashmir. His brother, Mohammad Shafi, had been able to meeting him and was glad to confirm that he is doing “fine.”
That doesn’t mean that the family is at peace with his arrest. India is not a parliamentary anymore,” Shafi aforesaid. “My brother has rights under Indian Formation—the state doesn’t even tell us under what accusation he has been inactive.
In a village in southern Kashmir, a 22-year-old man aforesaid he was picked up in a midnight raid and admonished for more than an hour along with a dozen other Kashmiris.
"I was familiar with control stick, rifle butts and they kept asking me why I went for a dissent march. I kept telling them that I didn't, but they didn't stop. After I shadowy, they used electric shocks to bring round me," he told Al Jazeera on condition of namelessness"Once they accomplished I was innocent, they wanted me to name a stone-pelter. I told them, I don't know anyone. So, they continued pulsating and electrocuting me. They wanted all of us to give the names of stone-pelters.
"They started actuation my beard and even tried to put it on fire. Then, someone hit me on the head and I shadowy. It is then they, perhaps, realised that I might die. So, they asked my friend to take me home. I regained knowingness after two days and it's been 20 days and I still can't walk properly.
Decked out by deep deodar forests, terrasse corn Fields, apple woodlet and rough elevation, the hamlet of Dardpora tucked in the northern rim of Indian-administered Kashmir looks pastoral.
Half widows :
But abrasion a little heavy and the wounds of time period of conflict wholesale across the region open up when its 300-odd widows and ‘half widows’ (women whose husbands have disappear but not yet been declared deceased) describe the pain of mislay their husbands in didactics of the on-going battle.
"His occurrent is still a mystery," says Begum Jaan, 52, whose husband Shamsuddin Pasal leftover home for evening prayers and never return again.
"Sometimes insurrectionist used civilians as guides. Other times army forced small town to lead search transaction in the forests. Not many returned to their families. We still wait for our husbands. They may be alive. Who knows? But then they should have returned," she asks.
Bibi Fatima’s story isn’t different either.
when her husband Vilayat Shah, a daily wager, left home in search for work. Fatima, 65, waited for his return for ten days but he was nowhere to be found.
"I searched him for months. Except for the army camps I searched for him everywhere. And one day I just gave up," Fatima says, adding, "We are illiterate people. In this far-away unreported world we do not have any information how to proceed with the case legally."
Force disappearance :
The unresolved conflict has resulted in untold miseries, including the misfortune that befell the women whose husbands have disappeared without a trace.
Since their husbands are not confirmed dead, they are officially not considered widows. Instead, the locals see them as "half-widows".
