The community travels to and fro from Kargil in north Kashmir to Jammu. He says when they're on the move they witness various shades of conflict across Jammu and Kashmir.

"We keep hearing that the Army bases are attacked and then in Srinagar there are normal people who throw stones at the police every Friday. Whenever we have spoken to them we have said, ‘hum jaise reh rahain hain hum theek hain’ (we are satisfied the way we are living).”

When asked about her daughter, Rasiya’s face lights up with a smile and she promptly replies, “Bohut shakaldaar thi, photo aapne dekha? (she was very beautiful, did you see her photo?)”

But soon that smile fades away and a sense of betrayal seems to takes over. The mother laments, “she never stole from anyone. Kept to herself. All she was doing was grazing the horses, then why did they have to do this to her?”

Akhtar wants the sun to set and he wants to go further and further away. "I've cried and cried in the last few days. I don't know what to do anymore. We will travel further away tonight. When it's daytime it is scary, the night is soothing cause we are constantly on the move."