arduous

ar·du·ous  (ärj-s)

adj.

1. Demanding great effort or labor; difficult: "the arduous work of preparing a Dictionary of the English Language" (Thomas Macaulay).

2. Testing severely the powers of endurance; strenuous: a long, arduous, and exhausting war.

3. Hard to traverse, climb, or surmount. See Synonyms at burdensome, hard.

Unfortunately, walking the path of 'insaniyat' in the Kashmir valley is arduous; it's so much easier of course to prove ones patriotism by waving a flag.