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The story Curfewed Night by Basharat Peer is about a young man and his journey
through life during the separatist movement during the Kashmir war between Pakistan and
India. This young man grows up to be a reporter in the city of Delhi a$er going to school and it is
there that he acquires the ability to so adequately tell the story of Kashmir during one of the
bloodiest con&icts that the world has ever seen. In the story the writer is telling a 'rst-hand
account of his observations and the trials that he and his family had to go through during these
trying times. Curfewed Night is a charged story that really shows the readers just how difficult
and scary it was to be living in Kashmir during the India-Pakistan war.
The story starts o* a$er a short explanation of the rigged elections and corruption
during the time that Kashmir was divided between India and Pakistan. It goes on to describe not
