Neelum Valley:
Rabia Bibi, a sparkling red dupatta pulled over his eyes, was not letting the threat of war with India stop her wedding in a remote valley in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.
“In our childhood, the situation was like this too, but we are not afraid. We will not be,” the 18-year-old told AFP after being carried in a flower-garland “Doli” car.
“We want peace so that our lives are not affected,” said the bride, brilliantly in gold bracelets, the jewelry of the jewelry and richly embroidered scarlet cloak. At the Ceremony Forward for the sacrifice of a chicken-var Groom Chaudhry Junaid, no less luminous in his detailed Sherwani coat and red-and-gold-turban, also Trassig.
“People are anxious and worried, but still we haven’t canceled any traditional ceremonies,” the 23-year-old chef said.
Tensions between the nuclear armed arc rivals have risen since India quickly accused Pakistan of supporting a shooting that killed 26 civilians in the Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) on April 22.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given his military “full operational freedom” to respond to the attack.
The two sides have been shot for more than a week on the heavily militarized control line (LOC), and Pakistan on Saturday conducted a “training launch” of a missile to prove his “operational emergency.”
Last week, Islamabad warned that they had “credible intelligence” that India planned impending strikes.
International pressure has been piled on both New Delhi and Islamabad to step down.
In Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AKJ), emergency exercises have been conducted in play areas, residents have been told to fill food and medicine and religious schools are closed.
In IIOJK, those living along Loc move further away – or cleans bunkers who fear conflict.
Ordinary Kashmiries living on both sides of the divided Muslim majority region are often the first victims trapped in the cross -fire.
In a checkpoint-free corner of the picturesque Neelum Valley, a tourist picenter closed last week, IIOJK is the other side of the river that winds through the mountainous region. Residents told AFP that they had been called on by the Pakistani authorities to remain vigilant due to the threat of a possible military confrontation.
In another village, mechanical engineer Shoaib Akhtar was also married.
“This is the happiest apartment in our lives and we don’t let anything ruin it,” said Akhtar, the 25-year-old groom surrounded by family.
