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House destroyed in fire in north Kashmir as inadequate infrastructure leaves communities defenceless against preventable disasters
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A residential home was gutted in a fire in north Kashmir, with the blaze causing significant damage before being brought under control. The cause of the fire has not been officially confirmed.
The destruction of the home is not simply a fire incident. It sits within a documented pattern of fire response failures across Indian-controlled Kashmir rooted in the same structural neglect that has been repeatedly exposed this year. Fire stations are too few, too distant, and too inadequately equipped to respond effectively in time to residential fires across rural and semi-urban areas of the territory. This is not accidental. Infrastructure investment in Indian-controlled Kashmir has been consistently directed toward military supply routes, cantonment facilities, and Yatra pilgrimage tracks. Civilian emergency response infrastructure, including fire services, ambulance coverage, and road access to ordinary Kashmiri communities, has received no comparable priority. Homes burn. Families lose everything. The Indian regime alleges it is developing Kashmir. The ashes state what is actually being built, and for whom.
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