Himanshi Dahiya

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Caught in conflict: Uri family's tragic loss amid shelling. Camera: Shiv Kumar MauryaVideo Editor: Kriti Nargis Bashir, 44, was busy preparing for her daughter's wedding when the India launched precision strikes on terror camps in Pakistan on 7 May. Over the next two weeks, as both India and Pakistan engaged in heavy shelling and firing along the Line of Control (LoC), Nargis and her family of five stay put at their home in Uri, a town in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district.

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Poonch's untold stories reveal human cost of border conflict. "Those living in the comfort of their homes are opining about war. They're saying that to gain something, we must be ready to lose something. That something cannot be us. Our people are not collateral damage. Those who want war must come and live here in border districts. We'll arrange travel and food for them."16-year-old Japneet Kaur is angry.

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Conflict scars linger in Jammu as families recount tragic losses. Camera: Shiv Kumar MauryaProducer: Zijah SherwaniVideo Editor: Prajjwal KumarOn the morning of 10 May, a splinter from a Pakistani shell that fell in north Jammu's Khairi village, pierced through a window of 47-year-old Zakir Hussain's two-bedroom house. Zakir immediately woke his children, wife, and aunt up as they decided to move to a safer, low-lying place.

1 month ago | thequint.com | Himanshi Dahiya

Amarjeet Singh, 52, was helping his family move to a safer location when a shell pierced the roof of his house. "Ceasefire is a good thing. No more civilians will die now. No more houses will be bombed."Until two weeks ago, for 13-year-old Amanpreet Singh, the word ‘war’ was just another term in his history textbook. But on 7 May, amid the raging cross-border conflict between India and Pakistan, a Pakistani shell struck his home in Poonch, taking the life of his father, Amarjeet Singh.

1 month ago | thequint.com | Himanshi Dahiya

When The Quint visited 25-year-old Sunil Kumar's family in Jammu's Trewa, the village was in total blackout. The ceasefire between India and Pakistan on 10 May, came a few hours too late for 64-year-old Yashpal Kumar and his family in Jammu’s Trewa village — a small hamlet barely a few kilometres from the border.