Suffering from insomnia and depression, boycotted by villagers branding him a government agent and unable to find a job, even as a manual labourer, his life was upended exactly 12 months ago.

Dar was tied to an Army jeep and taken around the Srinagar parliamentary constituency during the bypoll on April 9

Can one of the largest and most disciplined armies of the world use human shields?

An army officer’s anti-stone-pelting tactic revives bitter memories of Kashmiris used as human shields