People leave after offering prayers at the grave of Mohammad Sikander Bhat, during restrictions after Indian government scrapped the special constitutional status for Kashmir, in Srinagar August 10, 2019. Picture taken August 10, 2019. REUTERS/Devjyot Ghoshal
SRINAGAR, India(Reuters) - Around the time Mohammad Sikander Bhat lay dying at home in Indian Kashmir's main city of Srinagar, Shafiq Ahmed was racing to get his pregnant wife to a hospital, negotiating about 85 km (53 miles) of highways through a maze of heavily guarded checkpoints.
Amid severe movement restrictions and a total communications blockade, triggered by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to withdraw special rights for Jammu and Kashmir state, one man perished without his last wish fulfilled: that of seeing his three daughters.
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