Launched with national pride, the new rail link promises an economic uplift and strategic integration for the long-isolated region
On June 25, 60-year-old Muhammad Fakhrudin Bhat fulfilled a dream nearly four decades in the making: his first-ever train journey out of the Kashmir Valley to India’s capital, New Delhi.
As he boarded the newly inaugurated Katra-Srinagar Vande Bharat Express – l