Kashmir: Paying the price of curfew

Strict curfew for the past 5-days has crippled the lives of the people in the Valley. Medical shops have been shut and with no access to medicines patients are suffering in hospitals. 7-year-old Alam Firdous suffers from a heart condition but can't get medical help due to strict curfew in Srinagar. She has been forced to stay home for the past 5 days. Her father Firdous Ahmad says, "I am not able to get medicines for my daughter who is suffering. I am not able to get medicines for my father, as you see he is lying on the bed. We are not able to get milk for my 3-year-old daughter and no essential items for my home.'' Strict curfew has been imposed across the Valley after violence broke out on Eid. And caught in the strife are ordinary people, little children like Alam who hasn't been to school for 3-months since the latest cycle of violence began. Alam Firdous says, "I am not getting milk, chocolates, nothing. I can't go for tuitions either."