Refugees In Pakistani-Administered Kashmir Seek Attention

Sitting on the banks of River Neelam, also known as Kishanganga, crisscrossing the city of Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani-administered Kashmir, old and frail Ghulam Sarwar’s eyes are fixed on a snow-capped mountain.

Mist in his eyes, he remembers village he had left behind three decades ago in the Indian-administered Kashmir, which is across the mountain, divided by the heavily militarized Line of Control (LoC), a de facto border between India and Pakistan.

Some 40,000 refugees from Indian-administered Kashmir, also known as Jammu and Kashmir, who had to abandon their villages due to fighting, has been living in the camps in the city and elsewhere over the past 30 years, since an armed resistance erupted in the region.

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