“Who suffered more?”: Fear and fatigue in Kashmir after the ceasefire India Pakistan news tensions

Srinagar, Kashmir by the Indian- On Saturday morning in Fateh Kadal, a heavy -packed neighborhood on the slope of the Jhelum River in Srinagar, the largest city of Kashmir, which is run by the Indian, Hijira, 62 -year -old, drew a cotton scarf with a bezley design around her shoulders.

With her face destinations, sweat and sweat tense through her upper lip, she sat on the cement floor of the government’s grain store.

“Can you make it quickly?” I called for the person who runs the store.

Hijjara comes to the store every month to provide its vital details, as required by the government to secure the issuance of its monthly share of the subsidized grains, on which its four -made family depends on.

but This time it was different. The past few days have been unprecedented for the Indian director Kashmir. The drones were hovering, airports were closed, explosions rose, people were killed in a cross -border fire, and the area was prepared for an all -out war.

“He made me stand on the waiting list,” she said, flirting with knee pain, referring to the store operator. “But there is uncertainty. I just want my share of rice so that I can return quickly. The war is coming.”

Then, Saturday evening, Hajira breathed a sigh of sigh. US President Donald Trump announced that he had succeeded in Mediation in the ceasefire Between India and Pakistan.

“I thank God for this,” Hajira said, smiling shyly. “Perhaps they understood that I had no ways to bear the financial difficulties that would have caused war -like situation.”

On Sunday morning, Trump went a step forward, saying in a post on the social truth platform that will try to work with India and Pakistan for a long time Kashmir disputeIt is an area that partially controls the two countries, but each of them demands part of the other accountability.

Political analyst Zafar Chaudhry, based in Jammu in Kashmir, southern India, told Al -Jazeera that New Delhi would not be happy with the statement of Trump. India has long argued that Pakistan’s “terrorism” is the main cause of tensions between nuclear armed neighbors.

However, “Trump’s offer confirms the fact that Kashmir is still central in India’s confrontations,” said Ch Xodry.

As for Kashmiris, the hope that results from a fragile pause in the fighting between India and Pakistan, and Trump’s offer to mediate the conversations on Kashmir, reduces the doubts we produce for decades, and a desperate waiting.

“It was not more fearful.”

Hundreds of thousands of Kashmiris stood in the direct fire line between India and Pakistan in recent days.

When neighboring countries launched missiles and drones on each other, the Indian -based societies near the effective border with Pakistan witnessed a widespread cross -border cage for decades, which led to the exit of people towards safer positions.

the Struggle They chased their lives nearly four decades, as an armed rebellion erupted for the first time against the Indian government in the late 1980s. After that, in 2019, the government canceled the position of Kashmir almost subjective by the Indians amid a huge security campaign-thousands of people were imprisoned.

On April 22, a Brutal attack By the militants of tourists in Paalgam left 26 civilians, Natural life destroying Critics accused India of registration in the disputed area.

Since then, in addition to a diplomatic exchange of exchanges and missiles with Pakistan, the Indian government has increased the Indian Cashmer campaign.

The rebel homes accused of linking the Bahasa attack were destroyed, and other homes were raided throughout the region and detained nearly 2,800 people, 90 of whom were seized under the Public Safety Law, the Drakoni Preventive Displacement Law. The police also summoned many journalists and detained at least one to “strengthen the separatist ideology.”

By Sunday, while feeling joy in the area due to the ceasefire, many people were still cautious and doubt about it, even about whether the truce mediated by Trump would keep it.

A few hours after both countries announced the cessation of hostilities, loud explosions branched into the main urban centers through the Indian managers as a swarm of drones from Kamikaz from Pakistan through the airspace.

Many residents raced the balconies of their apartments and homes to take videos of drones that were dropped by the defense systems in India, which is a path of bright red points that start through the night sky before they explode in the air.

As part of the emergency protocols, the authorities extinguished electricity supplies. For fear that the debris of drones will fall on them, the residents ran for safety. The drone mutation through the night sky touched the sirens, which led to a feeling of awe.

“I don’t think I was more afraid of before,” said Hasnain Shabir, a 24 -year -old business graduate from Srinagar. “The streets were stolen throughout their lives. If the introduction of war seems like this, I do not know what the war will look.”

Firing

Hours after the ceasefire was announced on Saturday, India accused Pakistan Violation of the armistice By bombing the border areas. The population across the major cities in Kashmir on his toes, again, was again, after the appearance of drones in the sky.

One of the worst affected places in Kashmir these days is URI, a wonderful city of pear orchards and walnut orchards near the disputed border in India with Pakistan.

The village is surrounded by the majestic mountains through which the Gilum River flows. It is the last border on the side of the Indian director, before the hills pave the way to Kashmir, which depends on Pakistan.

Parts of URI have witnessed intense shelling, forcing residents to leave their homes and search for safety. On May 8, officials told Al -Jazeera that a woman, Nargis Bashir, was killed in her car while she and her family were trying to escape from the border area, like thousands of others, after shrapnel in the car. Three members of her family were injured.

Mohamed Nasser Khan, 60, was a former army soldier, gathered in his room when he hit the Pakistani artillery fire soon, with metal fragments erupted through the walls of his home. “The explosion has damaged my house,” said Khan wearing a traditional blue shirt and Tuid coat.

He said, “I don’t know if this place is suitable for living.”

Despite the ceasefire, his two daughters and many others in his family who left for a relative’s house, away from the disputed border, are skeptical of returning. “My children refuse to return. They have no guarantee that weapons will not be shaken again,” he said.

Suleiman Sheikh, a 28 -year -old, recalled his childhood when his grandfather talks about the artillery gun in Bouvores stationed inside a military garrison in the nearby village of Muharra.

He said: “He told us that the last time this gun was wasted in 1999, when India and Pakistan clashed on the ice summits of Cargil. It is a traditional belief here that if this rifle had guided again, things will become very bad.”

This is what happened at 2 am on May 8. While the Bofors pistol in Muhra was ready to release ammunition across the mountains to Pakistan, the sheikh felt the earth shaking under it. An hour and a half later, a shell on the other side hit the installation of an Indian sealing nearby, making a long noise before colliding with a tilapia.

Hours after the sheikh spoke to the island for this report, another shell fell to his home. The rooms collapsed and his house was connected, according to a video he shared with Al -Jazeera.

He refused to leave his house despite his family’s appeals to join them. The sheikh said: “I was here to protect livestock.” “I didn’t want to leave them alone.”

Unlike the rest of the Kashmir Valley, as apple cultivation brings millions of dollars in the region, URI is relatively weak. Villages mostly work as strange functions for the Indian army, which maintains a large garrison there, or farm and pear walnuts. Livestock raising a popular profession for many in the city.

“We have seen the direct experience of what the war feels. It is good that the ceasefire happened. But I do not know whether that will be so.” I pray to God to do. “

“How long should this continue?”

Returning to Srinagar, the residents slowly return to their daily life. Schools and colleges still remain closed, and people avoid unnecessary travel.

Scenes of drones in the sky and accompanying explosions are moved in public memory. “Only in the evening, we will learn if the ceasefire has been suspended,” said Moussakan Wani, a medical student at the Government College of Medicine, Serenagar, on Sunday.

He – she I did, overnightBut tension about whether it will remain.

Political experts attribute the general doubts about the ceasefire on political issues that were not resolved in the region – a point that resonated in Trump’s statement on Sunday, in which he referred to a “possible solution regarding Cashmer.”

“The problem of starting is political alienation (in Kashmiris),” said Nour Ahmed Baba, a former professor and head of the Political Science Department at Kashmir University.

“People in Kashmir feel insulting to what happened to them in the past few years, and there have been no great efforts to win it. When there is an insult, there is doubt.”

Others in Kashmir were expressed by the Indians of their anger in both countries to destroy their lives.

“I doubt that our feelings like Kashmiri are important,” said Forkan, a software engineer in Srinagar, who only gave his first name. “Two nuclear powers fought, causing damage and losses on the border, giving their countries a scene to watch it, their goals were fulfilled, then they stopped the war.

“But the question is, who suffered more?

A group said that his friends were skeptical of the ceasefire when the two countries resumed the bombing on the evening of May 10.

He said, “We were all like us,” it will not last, “then we heard the explosions again.”

Munib Mehraj, 26, chanted in Srinagar, studying the administration in the Northern Indian Punjab state, a group.

“For others, the war may end. A ceasefire has been declared. But again, it was the Kashmiris who paid the price – lost lives, destroyed homes, and destroyed peace,” he said. “How long should this course continue?”

“We are exhausted,” continued. “We don’t want another temporary pause. We want a permanent solution.”