Body of Victim, Body of Warrior. Cabeiri deBergh Robinson

the capital, however, 80 percent of the residents of this labor colony were Kashmiri.⁹² They had successfully prevented the Islamabad Central Development Authority from bulldozing their homes, and they attributed their success to having threatened to publicize the government’s “lack of concern for Kashmiri refugees.” The oldest residents, who claimed to have lived there since the capital was being built, were from Gujar or Bakerwal families who had had their winter camps in the Poonch and Rajouri regions and were displaced by the wars of 1965 and 1971. Over the years the colony had grown; it attracted people from AJK because the other Kashmiris living there helped them find work, build a shack, and bring their families. The labor colony expanded and became more densely populated in the 1990s, when LoC firing brought more people from border villages in search of wage work to supplement their disrupted agricultural production. After 1996, Shina-speaking refugees from Kargil (on the Indian side of the LoC) and Baltistan (on the Pakistan side) moved there, and such a significant number of people had moved to the colony from the Northern Areas during the Kargil War in 1999 that the Imam of the Shi’ia mosque had become the colony’s recognized spokesperson.