SORROW: In Muzaffarabad, a mother mourns her daughter; (right) in North West Frontier Province (NWFP), French rescue workers search for survivors in the debris of a school building. Most of the casualties were children attending school. The figures are not in but a generation is lost..

HOPE AND DESPAIR: Indian soldiers fly the injured from the devastated Uri sector to Srinagar. (right) On other side of the LoC, there is little dignity in death as bodies are laid in endless mass graves.

TOO LITTLE TOO LATE: (left) In NWFP, a boy waits for treatment in a makeshift hospital; (below) in Muzaffarabad, residents reach out for old clothes and food packets. But in many mountainous areas, relief has still not arrived, people are spending cold nights in the open and children are dying..