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Rifat Fareed

‘We have no one’: The women and girls sold as brides in Kashmir

Arsheeda Jan* was 13 years old when she was trafficked to Kashmir and married against her wishes [Rifat Fareed/Al Jazeera]

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Indian-administered Kashmir – Twenty-nine-year-old Nazima Begum* sits cross-legged on the floor of her dark room, the windows covered with tarpaulin. On her lap is her youngest son, five-month-old Taufiq*, who plays with his mother’s face as she talks. Occasionally, she stops to plant a kiss on his head.

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