Srinagar, Dec. 22 -- A little month after some of them lost their homes in the raging flareup along the Line of Control (LoC), the shell-shocked Uri villagers are staring at the sullen state of homelessness amid the bone-numbing cold.

AFTER a nightmarish fall that saw his townspeople abandoning everything to save themselves from the raining shells, Parveez Ahmad Sheikh is now getting worried about long and chilling winter ahead.

"We lost our homes to shells, and now we fear to lose our lives to this bone-chilling cold," Sheikh says, standing near the wreckage of his home in Balkote village of Ur's Hajipeer sector.

His family is living in a rented accommodation, after government, he says, failed to reconstruct homes bombed in the Novemb...