WOMEN IN POWER
Kashmir Life|December 13-19, 2020
The ongoing District Development Council (DDC) election is adding more than 100 new females to the power set-up in Jammu and Kashmir. Right now when some are reluctant participants, there is a huge number that is excited over the empowerment, reports Saima Bhat
Saima Bhat
WOMEN IN POWER

A way from their families since the day they stepped in Kashmir, around 350 women from Pakistan are facing multiple issues. These wives of former militants lament they have “no place to call home”.

They had come to Kashmir from Pakistan and Pakistan administered Kashmir as part of the “rehabilitation policy” announced in 2010 by Omar Abdullah government for youth who had the Line of Control (LoC) between 1989 and 2009.

FROM MUZZAFARABAD

Somiya Sadaf, originally a resident of Muzaffarabad in Pak, is one among them. She came to Kashmir after marrying a local militant from Batargam (Kupwara). She is now a candidate in the ongoing District Development Council polls. Her Drugmulla segment, a woman reserved seat, polled in the fifth phase. During the campaigning, she had a set schedule to follow. Starting from dawn and continuing even after dusk, she would visit people in her village, interacts and talks about development issues facing them. She was so busy campaigning that she could talk to Kashmir Life only around mid-night.

Living with her husband and four children, she is the only one among the almost 350 Pakistani women who is trying her luck with the ballot. But she is not the first one. Earlier in 2018, two women from PaK, Arifa, and Dilshada, married to former militants had won panchayat posts from Khumriyal and Mawar villages of north Kashmir respectively. As per the reports, in last years’ sarpanch and panch elections, at least five females who belonged to another side of Kashmir participated in the process and were elected.

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