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is adding around 100 new females to the power set-up in Jammu and Kashmir. Right now when some are reluctant participants, there is a huge number that is excited over the empowerment, reports
Saima Bhat
A woman contestant busy talking to people in Kupwara during her campaign for DDC elections.
Away from their families since the day they stepped in Kashmir, around 350 women from Pakistan are facing multiple issues. These wives of former militants lament they have “no place to call home”.
They had come to Kashmir from Pakistan and Pakistan administered Kashmir as part of the “rehabilitation policy” announced in 2010 by Omar Abdullah government for youth who had the Line of Control (LoC) between 1989 and 2009.