Maryam Kanwer is a human rights activist and researcher exiled in London.
Sanaa Alimia is an academic at the Aga Khan University.
On the independence anniversaries of India and Pakistan, Sanaa Alimia & Maryam Kanwer reflect on the detention of Kashmiri journalist Fahad Shah & continued practice of enforced disappearances to argue that freedom remains incomplete in the region.