Lol thanks for sharing ur pics and infact thank you for reffering me to that thread of Kashmir when I asked you about my plan.. that was a great help
You should definitely try to go in winter because from my experience for seeing the snow its better to go in the start of winter instead of start of summer. Start of summer is more tough for trekking but its better in terms of weather while start of winter is the opposite. We heard alot on the way about the problems and immense cold weather but we didnt find any trouble on our whole tour infact we wanted more cold and snow
I also wanted to Pass the top from Taobat and move on to Astore by trekking, I inquired about it, its a day trek but it was closed because of heavy snow on peaks !