I was pleasantly surprised to find a note in my flickr in-box from the good people at THEWIP,
which is an online current affairs magazine, from the perspective of women, stating that they wanted to
use one of the very few still photos I took while covering the earthquake that devastated the Kashmir
region of NE Pakistan for TV. The article was written by Afsaana Rashid who is a journalist living in Indian-
administered Kashmir and the author of Waiting for Justice: Widows and Half Widows.
The article details how the loss of most of the men in Kashmir, due to both the earthquake
and the war that is being fought between India and Kashmir,have left the relatively unskilled
women and children to fend for themselves. UNICEF estimates that Kashmir has as many as
100,000 special or orphaned children. That number is almost too large to comprehend. I am
just glad that they liked my photo enough and that I made it available through Creative Commons
so that they could use it to hopefully help people become a little more aware of the scale of the
crisis in the mountains of Pakistan.