Kashmir\'s Death Trap

This book is an effort to recall the life in Kashmir, a state under perpetual conflict. It is a saga of courage, betrayal, passion and hatred seen from the eyes of a young soldier. In this nature’s paradise, is a human hell where the lives are lost daily in pursuit of Ideology. Armed by own set of Justifications India, Pakistan and the Kashmiris battle each other to no end in sight.

Zealous young men continue to die for a cause diseased by treachery and celebrated by heroism. The territorial desire of Pakistan has cost dearly to the generations stifled in this conflict. This fight has devastated many a homes with ever widening chasm and deepening scars.

Punctuated by blood curdling violence, Kashmiris are prisoners of a historic mistake. In the ongoing series of Pakistan’s grand design to wrest control of this state, a proxy war was unleashed by them in 1989. This war still continues as I write.

1. Perfidy and Valour

2. Auld Lang Sang

3. Across the Nastachun Pass

4. A Lone Hut

5. Blood and Betrayal

6. The Mother Ridge

7. Blast on the Bhajan Post

8. A Major from the Intelligence Corps

9. An Encounter that Lasted 48 Hours

10. She Married A Kafir

11. Sixteen Dead Bodies

12. 100 km Patrol

13. Thin Lines

14. Qayum Charlie and Lorab Khan

15. Riyaz Accounted For

16. Solution Lies Else Where