Word: qumayon
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...high point of Abdul Qumayon?s life took place six weeks ago. As relations appeared to improve between India and Pakistan, a bus service opened between the halves of Kashmir divided between the two warring nations. An aunt and uncle whom Qumayon had never met, separated from him like many Kashmiri families by the partition of the subcontinent in 1947 and intervening wars, came across to see him in Uri, in Indian-held Kashmir. They had traveled from Muzzafarabad, the capital of Pakistani Kashmir, just over the Line of Control that separates the Indian and Pakistani portions of Kashmir...
...never recover from the despair that overcame him Saturday, when he watched the two houses he built with his own hands crumble and bury Sohil alive as a cataclysmic earthquake devastated Kashmir. The temblor, 7.6 on the Richter scale, recognized no borders. There is yet no news from Qumayon?s aunt and uncle in Muzzafarabad. The indications from Pakistan are not good: 70% of Muzzafarabad, a city of 100,000 people, may have been leveled...
...every thought is filled by the image of Sohil, running along a narrow lane between Qumayon?s two houses, as the walls bulged and burst into rivers of rocks and dust, swallowing the boy. ?We kept trying to dig him out,? says Qumayom, ?but every time we went back, the ground would shake again and we would run away.? He adds, blankly: ?We were afraid...
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