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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Arjumand Shaheen

Kashmir’s apple orchards, millions of jobs, face threat from rail line

A farmer sprays pesticides on trees in an apple orchard, which is to be taken for the proposed railway line in Reshipora, Shopian, Indian-administered Kashmir [Faisal Bashir/Al Jazeera]

Indian-administered Kashmir – Muhammad Shafi was working in his apple orchard in October last year, in Indian-administered Kashmir, when a group of men rushed in and started measuring his land without asking for his approval.

When he asked the men who they were and what were they doing on his land, Shafi said their response left him stunned. They were government officials sent to mark and measure his orchard for the construction of a railway line.

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