India-Pakistan Conflict Victim's Story

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Pakistan has been engulfed in conflicts and civil war for more than three decades. Peace, instability and institutional arrangements usually have not lasted even one term of the government. Democracy has not been practiced well due to both hostility and antagonism in the region. Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJ&K) is a disputed region in Pakistan where I was born and raised. The region has been under the Indo- Pakistan conflicts and since partition of sub-continent into India and Pakistan, it has experienced three direct wars.
AJ&K since its independence in 1947 is, experiencing continues marginalization in terms of socio-economic development. Around 30% of the 3.868 million population of the AJ&K is victim of Indo–Pakistan conflicts. Due to instability and lack of good governance, there has been no development projects neither from the government nor from the international organizations. Unfortunately, one of the biggest challenges to overcome the disasters and tragedies of the conflicts in our disputed area is lack of education and capacity building for networking humanitarian actions a...

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