Dia Hadid

H says, I don't have a choice.

I know this will kill me, but we'll all die someday, right?

What comforts her is thinking about her kids.

Her 11-year-old daughter, her 13-year-old son.

The ones she birthed herself.

They're being raised by her ex-husband.

She says, I love them so much.

Whenever I can, I give them money.

They say I don't have to, but my heart doesn't listen.

After all, I'm a mother.

She pushes back her chair to leave.

She's got word that she'll be able to see them if she can leg it across town in half an hour.

I'm going to wait here.

Pastor, thank you so much.

She's got to run.

According to an eyewitness, protesters armed with guns and Molotov cocktails set fire to part of a military base in Skardu, that's in the Pakistani-administered territory of Baltistan in the Himalayan mountains.

As the eyewitness spoke to NPR, there was an audible spurt of gunfire.

It came after local outlet Premier Times reported that protesters in Skardu and another town called Gilgit set fire to UN officers.

Across the border in Indian-administered Kargil, one local outlet, the Srinagar News Service, shared footage of tens of thousands of people in a square where they shouted, death to America, death to Israel.

Other protests took place in the Indian city of Lucknow.