Locals in Pakistani Kashmir Fear Being the First to Face India’s Ire

Families are reinforcing their bunkers and confirm evacuation plans. Hospitals have supplied in essential medicines. Schoolchilden is being trained in the essentials of first aid.

Throughout the Pakistani-Hero section of Kashmir, there is an emergency air, a persistent fear as the threat of military confrontation progresses.

“God wishes, nothing will happen,” said Azeem Gilani, a baker in Muzaffrabad, the Cashmir capital managed by Pakistani. “We have seen this before. But if God does not want it, the situation worsens, the puppy on both sides will suffer.”

Since a terrorist attack two weeks ago on the back of Kashmira’s back has left 26 dead innocent people, the Kashmir have tried to prepare for what an inevitable military escalation between India and Pakistan seems. Both countries claim Kashmir in their entirety, but each one controls only one section. The beautiful territory of Himalaya has been the main point of influence of the conflict between archirrival nations for almost 80 years.

Shortly after the attack, Prime Minister Narendra Modi or India promised “severe punishment” for perpetrators and suggested that Pakistan had been involved. In turn, Pakistan said he had a suggestion of “credible intelligence” of an imminent Indian military strike, and his leaders promised a strong response to any aggression.

The puppy on the side controlled by the Pakistani of the territory fear that they can be in the first line of fire. It fits the conflicts between India and Pakistan often have begun with confrontation along the border between the two sides of Kashmir, known as the “control line.”

“It is not new to us,” said Tanzeel Ahmed, who runs a grocery store in a town near Athmuqam, two miles from the border. “We have lived this before.”

Like many in the villages and peoples adjacent to the control line, Mr. Ahmed has reinforced his underground bunker with mud walls, stored essential supplies and plans elaborated to evacuate if the bombardment begins. But not all in the area have enough money for such precautions.

“Prepareing for the conflict is not just about fear,” said Ahmed. “It’s about whether it can be allowed to survive.”

Many in Kashmira are making the lives of the tourism industry or related fields. The tourism season would generally have begun, in early May, as temperatures increase the party party.

The official data indicate that about three million tourists visited the region last year. But this year’s prospects are gloomy.

Local authorities have restricted access to sensitive border areas, significantly reducing the flow of visitors. Many vacationers have canceled their plans. Others have been returned at security control points. The sites that once break, as a popular waterfall known for their tea posts and photo opportunities, are almost deserted.

“Tourism is our economic spine,” said Shahid Chaudary, an owner of the guest house. “All 42 Romans are vacancies, and we had to let our staff go. The losses are devastating.”

In Muzaffrabad, officials have instructed the Food Department to store emergency food supplies for two months in anticipation of a possible attack by India.

While regular schools, until now, have remained open, local authorities have ordered that hundreds of religious seminars, known as Madrasas, close for at least 10 days. The authorities said that stepmother, who provide Islamic education and teach children to memorize the Qur’an, could be seen as militant training centers and attacked by Indian air attacks, as they have bone in the past.

“The authorities instructed us to temporarily close the stepmother due to the predominant security situation,” said Muhammad Rafiq, teacher of a madrasa in Muzampharabad, where 150 children study.

Hogar with more than four million people, the Pakistania of Cashmiro’s Pakistania covers around 86,000 square miles and operates under a semi -autonomous frame with its own legislature, president, prime minister and the Supreme Court. But all electoral candidates and officials must sign a promise of loyalty to Pakistan, a requirement that underlines the country’s influence on the political structure of the region.

The conflict over the region was in 1947 when Great Britain divided India, its former colony, in two countries: Pakistan, with a Muslim and Indian majority, with a Hindu majority. But Kashmir’s fate was restless.

The war broke out when both Pakistan and India claimed the region. After a high fire in 1949, India remained ruling around two thirds of the territory, and Pakistan the other third.

Around the following decades, Kashmir and its people were deeply marked by wars between India and Pakistan. As an insurgency against India, the ascent tied in the territory in the 1980s, Pakistan intervened with money and training.

Violence was moderated for a while in the 2000s. But political developments in recent years, and the uncertainty expelled by the terrorist attack last month, could make a rebirth of insurgency and political interruption, analysts say.

On Monday at a central intersection in Muzampharabad, a group of activists went on to a protest and burning tires to demonstrate their anger for what they called the unfounded accusations of India about the recent terrorist attack and their war threats.

“Kashmira, burning through the LOC, belongs to Pakistan,” said Mushtaq Dar, a protest leader, which refers to the control line.

After the Indian government took energetic measures on its back of Kashmir in 2019, revoking the semi -autonomous status of the region, a wave of protests broke out in the region controlled by the Pakistani, since the residents feared a similar adjustment of restrictions.

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Raja Farooq Haider Khan, a former prime minister whose region includes villages that have often been bombarded, said residents would contribute the same attitude to the excellent confrontation between and Pakistan. He said that Althegh Kashmir has always opposed the war, they have never moved away from defending their rights.

“If war is imposed,” he said, “they will fight to defend their land with an unwavering resolution, until their last breath.”