"This is not Azad Kashmir. For us, it is azab Kashmir," a refugee from India-occupied Kashmir now living in one of the 30 camps in Pakistani Kashmir said to me once.
He was mocking the area's name, which should emphasise its freedom. Living in makeshift camps, sometimes for decades, with often very limited access to basic infrastructure and employment opportunities, I was always confused with how refugees from an area Pakistan has officially always wanted to claim are left hanging. But then,
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