Srinagar, May 21 -- By Nawaz Manzoor

A young couple stepped out of a taxi near Karan Nagar on a cold spring morning this month and walked toward a fertility clinic tucked between a pharmacy and a diagnostic laboratory.

The husband held a file thick with blood reports and scan results. His wife kept her eyes fixed on the entrance as patients moved through the narrow lane lined with signboards advertising IVF treatment, reproductive medicine and hormonal therapy.

Karan Nagar, once known mainly for hospitals and homes, has turned into Kashmir's fertility corridor. Several reproductive health centers have opened in the neighbourhood during recent years as growing numbers of couples seek medical help to conceive.

Doctors describe packed wa...