For over 10 hours, a young soldier in Kashmir trekked to his village which lies near the Line of Control. On his shoulder, he carried his mother's dead body, a few relatives accompanying him. To reach home and bury his mother there, Mohammed Abbas had to make it through a pass where it has been snowing heavily for the last few days. He walked a distance of nearly 50 km because the road connecting Kupwara to Karnah, a major highway, is covered with nearly six feet of snow.
