Childhood is the name of innocence, dreams and a world of wonder. But this is not true in case of the children and youth in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir. For them, there are no stories of fairies and brownies any longer, no dreams any more. The saying that one’s most beautiful time of life is childhood – an age of blissful ignorance sheltered by the parents in peaceful, tranquil and secure environment – isn’t true for the kids growing up in IIOJK. Their innocence has been snatched away; they are thrown in the brutal shackles of a nightmarish reality.
For the past 78 years, the innocent Kashmiri children and youth have been facing a life of uncertainty, fear and oppression at the hands of the Indian security forces, whose presence has made the occupied valley an open prison. Kashmir’s unresolved dispute is not just a political ...
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Zara Sher Khan