As India, Pakistan hail military feats, Kashmiris are left to grieve
URI, Indian-administered Kashmir — The night of May 8 returns to Sanam Bashir as a jumble of disjointed images. Her family was packed into three cars. The road was so dark, she said, and the artillery fire deafening.
'It felt like the night of judgment,' said Bashir, 20, who was huddled in the back seat with her little cousin, 4-year-old Muheeb, her aunt and her mother, Nargis Begum.
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