For the last 30 years, each day during the call to prayer, Noori Begum* thinks of her husband, Husain Khatana. ‘When he was taken from our home, the masked armed men told me they were going for the Isha prayer, which is performed before midnight,’ she explains.
Noori, who lives in Dardpora village in the northwest of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, has never had Husain’s body returned to her. ‘I waited for my husband’s return until dawn, but he never came back,’ she says. ‘That morning, I discovered that many other men in the village had also been taken and were untraced.
