Once a bustling town, Baramulla faces neglect

Known as Gateway to Kashmir till 1947, it lost importance over the years Kashmiri historian and scholar Prithvi Nath Kaul Bamzai had, in his writings, described Baramulla as the chief city of Jammu and Kashmir. Situated along the historic Rawalpindi-Srinagar highway, now called the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road, traders and visitors, or for that matter even raiders, first landed in Baramulla before 1947, when the road was closed. However, over the years, the once bustling business city and Gateway to Kashmir had faced political as well as economic neglect. “Baramulla as a…

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