Mehvish Mushtaq

Today we’re talking about a mobile project run by a young girl. She’s Mehvish Mushtaq, and the project is called  Dial Kashmir , an Android app that provides valuable info about Kashmir. The description on  Google Play  goes like this: “All the information about Kashmir is now just a touch away.” The project has been developed in Srinagar,  a city of over 1.2 million people located in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir , and provides a very important service to the whole Kashmir area, which counts around 5 million people. The promotion of Dial Kashmir is strongly focused on social media; the  Facebook page  is quite active, with posts about the app and about the beauty of Kashmir.

Meet Mehvish Mushtaq, The Young Kashmiri Girl Helping You ‘Dial Kashmir’ At The Touch Of A Button Kashmir is not usually present in our imaginations (or on our TV screens for that matter) for reasons other than militancy, bomb blasts, curfews, guerilla attacks, protests, firing on civilians, army crimes, so on and so forth (though occasionally the images of juicy red apples and snowy honey-moon spots makes it through!).