In Gurez Valley, a remote corner of Indian-administered Kashmir, 26-year-old Ejaz Dar often sits on a weathered bench outside his mud-and-timber home, his eyes fixed on the rugged peaks 12 kilometers away. Those peaks mark the Line of Control (LoC), the de facto border dividing the disputed territory of Kashmir between India and Pakistan. Dar’s home lies dangerously close to this volatile line, but his thoughts drift elsewhere, to the day in 2019 when his aunt left the family’s bunker to fetch