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Lives On Hold In India's Border Villages With Pakistan

An Indian army post near Sainth, the last village near the Line of Control in Jammu district (Credit: AFP)

On India's heavily fortified border with arch-rival Pakistan, residents of farming villages have sent families back from the frontier, recalling the terror of the last major conflict between the rival armies.

Those who remain in the farming settlement of Sainth, home to some 1,500 people along the banks of the broad Chenab river, stare across the natural division between the nuclear-armed rivals fearing the future.

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