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Feb 4, 2022 · Peer discusses the attraction of militancy for young Kashmiri boys, their crossing of the Line of Control (LOC) to get training in Pakistan and returning armed with a new sense of empowerment and swagger, and with the youthful idealism that their sacrifices would result very soon in azadi (freedom) for Kashmir.
Jan 1, 2009 · Basharat Peer was a teenager when the separatist movement exploded in Kashmir in 1989. Over the following years countless young men, seduced by the romance of the militant, fueled by feelings of injustice, crossed over the Line of Control to train in Pakistani army camps.
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Since 1989, when the separatist movement exploded, more than seventy thousand people have been killed in the battle between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. Born and raised in the war-torn region, Basharat Peer brings this little-known part of the world to life in haunting, vivid detail.
Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir is a memoir on the Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan, written by Kashmiri American journalist Basharat Peer. It primarily focuses on the impact of the ongoing anti-India insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir, and is a winner of the Crossword Prize for Nonfiction. [1]
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Early in this extraordinary memoir, the Kashmir-born writer Basharat Peer recounts the tense moments of a cricket match between India and Pakistan in Sharjah in 1986. Pakistan...
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Aug 10, 2019 · Peer noticed changes in his small world: a militant was spotted with a Kalashnikov under his pheran; a teacher told them about the Indian freedom struggle and how students paid a high price; amid...
