PHOTOS: Ramadan in Besieged Kashmir
Contradictory glimpses of a sometimes quiet, sometimes tense Ramadan in the region
Text by Majid Maqbool, photos by Umer Asif
The besieged Jammu & Kashmir region, the scenic ‘heaven’ that has been disputed between India and Pakistan since independence in 1947, concluded the holy month of Ramadan – called Ramazan here, on May 24 – under unprecedented restrictions and a near total lockdown, partly because of the Indian government’s decis…
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