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Journalists covering a gunfight in downtown Srinagar in Kashmir where over a dozen of residential houses were damaged during the operation in May. (Photo by Umer Asif)

KAISAR ANDRABI and SHAKIR MIR, Contributing writers

SRINAGAR -- Every time a gunfight starts between armed rebels and Indian forces in Kashmir, Qisar Mir, 22, a photojournalist from the town of Pulwama, quickly slings a camera across his shoulder, mounts his motorbike and speeds off.

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