{"id":16977,"date":"2019-03-02T16:03:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T10:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=16977"},"modified":"2019-03-02T16:03:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T10:33:38","slug":"there-has-been-war-playing-in-our-lives-for-last-30-years-shah-faesal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=16977","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThere has been war playing in our lives for last 30 years\u201d: Shah Faesal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>SRINAGAR:<\/i><\/strong><i> Former IAS officer Shah Faesal today said that there has been a war playing in our lives for the last 30 years.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Shah Faesal said,\u201dpanic\u201d that gripped the strife-torn region as India-Pakistan tensions reached boiling point after the attack in Pulwama.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThe last fortnight has been a horrific time for all of us,\u201d Faesal, who resigned from the civil service in January, said at the India Today Conclave in New Delhi.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cI was in my home, and all of us were really waiting for these jets to crash over us and all these bombs to crash in through our roofs.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cWe haven\u2019t slept,\u201d Shah Faesal said.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cAll Kashmir had gone for panic-buying and we were preparing for, maybe, a war of a couple of months,\u201d recalled Shah Faesal, describing the past fortnight. \u201cPeople were thinking: what if there is a nuclear attack?\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cOur children were totally agitated and we didn\u2019t know how to arrange for their baby food.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cWhen there are hostilities between India and Pakistan\u201d, Shah Faesal said, \u201cit\u2019s fundamentally the people of Jammu and Kashmir who become the worst sufferers of that war. So we would not want that war to happen.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThere has been a war playing in our lives for the last 30 years,\u201d Shah Faesal said. \u201cAnd every morning, when my kid goes to school, my wife tells me that we don\u2019t know [whether he will] come back. This war plays every evening in my house when my mom looks at the portrait of my dead father, who lost his life in this conflict.\u201d (PTK)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR: Former IAS officer Shah Faesal today said that there has been a war playing in our lives for the last 30 years. Shah Faesal said,\u201dpanic\u201d that gripped the strife-torn region as India-Pakistan tensions reached boiling point after the attack in Pulwama. \u201cThe last fortnight has been a horrific time for all of us,\u201d Faesal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}