Uri has been desolate for weeks now. Most shops in the town close to the Line of Control are shut and there is barely any traffic on the road. A few chemists are open, but their medicine stock is down by 75 per cent. “We are running out of medicines. The situation is same everywhere. I can safely say food is available in the Valley, but medicines are not. We do not even have Lactogen (baby food),” says the proprietor of Malik Medical House. Stray dogs outnumber humans on the streets—they keep howling and run from place to place in search of food. This is one of the longest curfews in Uri since insurgency broke out in Kashmir in 1990.