IOK women suffer under lockdown in their own less visible way.

ISLAMABAD -- In Indian occupied Kashmir, ever since Narendra Modi's communal government repealed the special status of Kashmir in August and placed the territory under a massive military lockdown, life has been a struggle for the Kashmiris.

According to reporter, men historically make up most protesters in Indian occupied Kashmir and are often the first arrested or physically abused in crackdowns, experts say that Kashmiri women are suffering from the lockdown in their own less visible way.

Sumaira Bilal, wife of Kashmiri detainee Bilal Ahmed, who was detained on the night of Aug 5, says that her daughter points to the window often and calls for her father 'Baba, Baba, when are you coming back?'.

Zahida Jahangir's son was born premature and weak. He was rushed from the clinic where he was born to the neo-natal intensive care unit in a children's hospital across town.

The lockdown made it nearly impossible to visit her son or even communicate with the hospital. Zahida was separated from her son for the first 20 days of his life, and though he is now healthy, the experience has created what she says is a pain only a mother could know and left her with regrets that will last a lifetime.

Kulsuma Rameez's wedding was scheduled for during the lockdown and she was unable to go shopping for the wedding dress she dreamed of. Instead she was married in a borrowed dress at a small ceremony attended by a few relatives and neighbors. After the ceremony, she had to walk to her new home as the roads were blocked.

Photo journalist Masrat Zahra was covering the first Friday...