Abdul Salaam Dar fishes for a living, but he is also regularly called upon to help rescue people – dead and alive – from the region’s waters
Abdul Salaam Dar has been fishing for most of his life. From Lelhar Kakapora, a hamlet along the Jhelum River in Kashmir, 69-year-old Dar sells his catch at local markets.
He is also a fisher of people. For the past 30 years, he has rescued hundreds of people and pulled out 47 corpses from rivers in the valley.
