Akhnoor, Jammu: India’s border with Pakistan along which the May conflict took place in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most complicated boundaries of the world. Partly international and partly disputed, this year the border experienced a new warfare, a new normal and a fresh need for trauma care.

In this special report based on an August trip to Akhnoor region of Jammu border stretch, the community in a village called Sungal for the first time publicly talked about their experience of the war and its aftermath. Akhnoor is a town on the bank of the river Chenab that temporarily went dry after India suspended its participation from the Indus Water Treaty and closed a dam uphill for a few hours on May 5. Chenab is one of the major trans-boundary rivers of the Indus river basin.

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