It’s Uniform vs Uniform as schoolgirls fight military in Kashmir

It’s now uniform versus uniform in Indian-administered Kashmir as students in school or college uniform fight pitched battles with soldiers in fatigues. The starkest manifestation of the downturn is Kashmiri girls in headscarves and uniforms pelting stones at security forces in Srinagar alongside rebellious male students for the first time in a region which former American President, Bill Clinton, famously called one of the most dangerous places in the whole world. School and college-going women have been photographed hurling rocks and bricks, shouting anti-India and pro-azadi (freedom) slogans and pounding…

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