One of the old companies that went through this change is Dar Sports, which has been around for nearly a century. Deeply rooted in sporting goods, it is one of Kashmir’s oldest bat-makers.
Owais Ahmed Dar, who now leads Dar Sports, is aware of the ‘strategic shift’ in the family business that took place soon after the partition. “We connected with Jalandhar, a major sports hub then alongside Sialkot in Pakistan,” Owais said. Sialkot, not far away from Jammu, was home to a number of Kashmiri artisans and continues to be a thriving sports manufacturing hub, a town that privately owns an airport and an air carrier with five aircraft. Post-partition, Jalandhar and Meerut became the twin sports manufacturing hubs on this side of the Redcliff divide
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