While schools have reopened in Kashmir following a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, students living along the Line of Control are still reeling from days of cross-border shelling and drone attacks.
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00:00When it started, we were in fear, in fear.
00:04We didn't understand what happened.
00:06When we saw that it was so much damage, it was freezing.
00:10Our studies were very bad.
00:14Habiba Riaz is a tenth great student.
00:18She lives in a border village in Uri, along the Line of Control,
00:23the de facto border that separates India and Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
00:28On May 7th, the Indian military launched aerial strikes
00:32against targets in Pakistan-controlled territory.
00:36It was India's armed response to the killings of Hindu tourists
00:40in India-administered Kashmir on April 22nd.
00:45What followed was four days of tit-for-tat cross-border drone and missile strikes.
00:52When we sleep at night, the sun is open.
00:56When we sleep at night, we think that the sound of the people
00:59are going to fall in the eyes.
01:00The sound of the people are going to come again.
01:02Even though, if we close the door to the door,
01:05we think that it will start again.
01:06We are trying to run away.
01:07The fear and fear has been sitting in the same way.
01:11After days of escalating conflict, both sides agreed to a ceasefire on May 10th.
01:18While schools have reopened, Riaz says the fear that the shelling could start again at any moment still grips her.
01:26In this corridor, I was walking.
01:28As I was walking before, I was not walking before.
01:30Now I am not walking before.
01:31I have fear and fear.
01:33As we were walking before, I was walking with my friends.
01:37I was walking with my friends.
01:38I was walking with my life.
01:40I was walking with my life.
01:41I was walking with my life.
01:42But now we are totally different.
01:44There is no ceasefire.
01:46We should not talk about two countries.
01:48There is no ceasefire.
01:49It is necessary.
01:50Our studies have been very important.
01:53The morning assembly was before, but now it is not.
01:56Our activities were on Saturday.
01:59It is not now.
02:03The shells killed dozens on both sides of the line of control.
02:07Many homes were turned into rubble.
02:10This road is going to our school.
02:13This road comes to a place where the shells are falling.
02:16This is a place where we are walking from this road.
02:19We are going to our school.
02:21We are looking at this place.
02:23There is fear, fear and memories.
02:25There is a place where we remember again.
02:27What happened in the last 10 days.
02:28There is a loss.
02:29If it starts again,
02:31then our property can also go.
02:33Our property can also be lost.
02:35Our property can also be lost.
02:36Sheikh Tanweer, a father of four,
02:39is concerned about the psychological impact
02:41that shelling could have on children in the long term.
02:44The biggest challenge is because
02:47the growing child has been in the middle class
02:50to the big school,
02:51which is fair,
02:52which is fair,
02:53that the biggest challenge is
02:55that after shelling,
02:57how can we outcome that fair
02:59and how we have the opportunity.
03:00How can we have counseling
03:01that could not be in the border areas.
03:05If a child has been to school, you have to help the parents to take the school.
03:13Teachers say parents weren't even sending their children at first
03:17because no one knew when the situation might become worse again.
03:22It's a task to bring children back to the track.
03:26They have to teach children, involve them in games.
03:29They have to recover their mental state.
03:33After that, we will come back to the track.
03:39The cross-border shelling has made it difficult for teachers to teach and for the students to concentrate.
03:47I was talking yesterday.
03:48When I was giving my EBS class 4,
03:51there was a lot of firing here.
03:53There are camps that are close to here.
03:55I was also doing a drill.
03:56The kids were writing tests.
03:58They were standing there.
04:00There was no sound.
04:02They were talking.
04:03I was having to settle my children.
04:05We are not going.
04:06We are going.
04:07It's not going to happen.
04:08It's not going to happen.
04:09There's a little bit of opening.
04:10Some of them hear the door.
04:11They get up from their seats.
04:13They panic.
04:15They say, I'm probably going to be shelling.
04:17This trauma has been bad.
04:19The conflict between India and Pakistan poses a significant risk to regional stability.
04:27Days of cross-border strikes marked the worst period of hostility between the two nuclear-armed neighbors over the past decade.