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A villager shows the wall of his house riddled with shrapnels from Pakistani artillery shelling at RS Pura, along the International Border, India, Monday, May 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
Trump’s mediation offer renews focus on Kashmir after India-Pakistan clash risked broader war-uat
A series of military strikes last week by India and Pakistan brought the nuclear-armed rivals closer to a broader war. The possibility of a nuclear conflagration seemed real and the fighting only stopped when global powers intervened.
 
Shopkeepers wait for customers at the main bazaar, a day after the ceasefire between Indian and Pakistan was announced, in Jura, near Line of Control, in Neelum Valley, a district of Pakistan's administered Kashmir, Sunday, May 11, 2025. (AP Photo/M.D. Mughal)
Unease lingers in Kashmir despite ceasefire between India and Pakistan
People in Kashmir say they are relieved but uneasy after India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire. The deal was intended to defuse the worst military confrontation between the two countries in decades.
 
A relative mourns at the funeral of Raj Thapa, a senior bureaucrat who was killed in Pakistani shelling in Rajouri, in Jammu, India, Sunday, May 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
India claims its strikes inside Pakistan territory last week killed over 100 militants.
India says its strikes into Pakistan-controlled Kashmir and Pakistan on Wednesday killed more than 100 militants.
 
Red projectiles are seen over Srinagar, in Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, May 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
India and Pakistan accuse each other of violating ceasefire hours after reaching deal
India and Pakistan have agreed to a ceasefire after U.S.-led talks to end the most serious military confrontation between the nuclear-armed rivals in decades but accused each other of violating the deal just hours later.
 
A local resident shows a piece of shell fired by Indian forces, at his damaged house in Haveli Kahuta, a district of Pakistan's administered Kashmir, Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Rashid Ahmed)
Indian and Pakistan troops swap intense artillery fire
Indian and Pakistani soldiers have exchanged heavy volleys of shells and gunfire across their frontier in Kashmir, killing at least five civilians in a growing military standoff.
 
Rubina Begum wails as she stands outside her house damaged by Pakistani artillery shelling, at Salamabad village in Uri ,north of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
Many in Kashmir fear the deadly India-Pakistan escalation heralds another war
The people of Kashmir have for decades been caught in the middle of the bitter rivalry between Pakistan and India over the disputed Himalayan region they call home.
 
Rubina Begum wails as she stands outside her house damaged by Pakistani artillery shelling, at Salamabad village in Uri ,north of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
India and Pakistan trade fire and accusations as fears of a wider military confrontation rise
Pakistan said Indian drones killed two civilians and wounded four soldiers, as India accused its neighbor of attempting its own attack.
 
Debris of an aircraft lie in the compound of a mosque at Pampore in Pulwama district of Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
India fires missiles on Pakistan. Islamabad calls it an ‘act of war’
Pakistan says it will avenge those killed by India’s missile strikes that New Delhi called retaliation for last month’s massacre of Indian tourists. Pakistan called Wednesday’s strikes an act of war and claimed it downed several Indian fighter jets.
 
Indian security officers inspect the site where militants indiscriminately opened fired on tourists on Tuesday, in Pahalgam, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo, File)
India’s leader Modi touted all was well in Kashmir. A massacre of tourists shattered that claim
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration has governed Kashmir with an iron fist in recent years. The government has claimed militancy in the region was in check and a tourism influx was a sign of normalcy returning.
 
Supporters of All Parties Hurriyat Conference chant slogans during an anti India rally, in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan's controlled Kashmir, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/M.D. Mughal)
Pakistan asks Gulf allies to help ease India tensions following Kashmir attack
Pakistan’s prime minister has met with envoys from Gulf allies, seeking help in defusing tensions with India following last week’s attack on tourists in the Kashmir region.
 
A locked garden gate is seen in Srinagar after it was closed by authorities as a precautionary safety measure following last week's deadly attack on tourists near the resort town of Pahalgam, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
Dozens of tourist resorts in Indian-controlled Kashmir are closed after deadly attack
Authorities in Indian-controlled Kashmir have temporarily closed more than half of the resorts in the scenic Himalayan region following a deadly attack on tourists. Officials say the decision is a precautionary safety measure.
 
Kashmiri villager inspect the debris of the blown-up family home of Ahsan Ul Haq Shiekh, a militant who officials say is involved in the deadly attack on tourists in Pahalgam, at Murran village in Pulwama, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Indian military says Pakistani troops fired at positions along the border in disputed Kashmir
India’s military says Pakistani soldiers shot at Indian posts along the highly militarized frontier in disputed Kashmir for a second consecutive night.
 
Kashmiri villager women grieve as they sit outside the blown-up family home of Asif Shiekh, a militant who officials say is involved in the deadly attack on tourists in Pahalgam, at Monghama village in Tral, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Indian officials say troops exchanged fire with Pakistani soldiers in disputed Kashmir
Indian officials says that Indian and Pakistani soldiers briefly exchanged fire along their highly militarized frontier in Kashmir. The exchange comes as tensions soar between the nuclear-armed rivals following a deadly attack on tourists.
 
Supporters of the Pakistan Murkazi Muslim League party chants slogans during a demonstration against the suspension of water-sharing treaty by India with Pakistan, in Karachi, Pakistan Thursday, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
India and Pakistan ramp up tit-for-tat spat as tensions mount over Kashmir attack
India and Pakistan have cancelled visas for their nationals to each other’s countries as tensions rise between the nuclear-armed neighbors.
 
A relative wails during the funeral procession of Adil Hussain Shah, a daily-wage worker, who died when militants indiscriminately opened fire on a crowd of mainly tourists on Tuesday, at his village Hapatnar, about 20 km (13 miles) from Pahalgam where the incident took place, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
India blames Pakistan for a deadly attack in Kashmir and suspends a key water treaty
India is blaming Pakistan for a militant attack that killed 26 people in Indian-held Kashmir, downgrading diplomatic ties and suspending a crucial water-sharing treaty.
 
Paramedics carry a wounded tourist on a stretcher at a hospital in Anantnag after assailants indiscriminately fired at tourists visiting Pahalgam, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, April 22, 2025.(AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Militants kill at least 26 tourists at a resort in Indian-controlled Kashmir
Indian police say gunmen have killed at least 26 tourists at a resort in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Tuesday’s attack appears to be a major shift in a regional conflict in which tourists have largely been spared from violence.
 
Raza Academy members shout slogans in Mumbai, India, to condemn the Waqf amendment bill that was passed early Thursday by the Lower House of India's parliament, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
India’s parliament passes bill that would change Muslim land endowments
India’s parliament has passed a controversial bill moved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government to amend laws governing Muslim land endowments.
 
A Kashmiri Muslim man prays inside the shrine of Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jeelani, commonly known as Dastageer Sahib, in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
India’s parliament set to debate controversial law on Muslim endowments
India’s parliament has begun debating a proposal by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government to change laws governing Muslim land endowments in the country.
 
Farooq Ahmad Shaksaaz searches for a favorite cassette tape at his tailor shop in the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Kashmir’s Sufi music lovers are sticking with the audio cassette
Shaksaaz, a tailor in the Kashmiri city of Srinagar, inherited his passion for local Sufi music from his grandfather along with a meticulously preserved collection of cassette tapes from the 1970s, which he often listens to as he works.
 
Saja Begum, an elderly Kashmiri woman, reacts after seeing the dried-up spring inside the Achabal Mughal Garden in Anantnag south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Hilal Ahmed Shah)
Famed for Himalayan peaks and pristine lakes, Kashmir faces a water crisis amid dry weather
People in the Himalayan region of Kashmir have watched in agony for days as a famed ancient spring ran dry amid extreme dry weather conditions. It was the first time in living memory the spring water had vanished.
 
U.S. Air Force fighter aircraft F-35 takes off to perform on the fourth day of the Aero India 2025, a biennial event, at Yelahanka air base in Bengaluru, India, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
Guarded optimism in India as Trump and Modi outline plans to deepen defense partnership
There is a guarded optimism among military experts in India as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump have outlined plans to ramp up sales of defense systems to New Delhi to deepen the U.S.-India strategic relationship.
 
Jaspal Singh, 36, one of the Indian immigrants deported by the United States talks to his relatives upon his return to his home near Amritsar, India, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Prabhjot Gill)
Opposition lawmakers protest alleged mistreatment of Indian deportees by US
India’s Parliament was disrupted as opposition lawmakers protested alleged mistreatment of 104 Indian citizens deported by the United States.
 
India docks 2 satellites in space in a milestone for its scientific ambitions
Space officials in India say they have docked two satellites in space to become the fourth nation to complete such a mission, in a milestone for the country’s scientific ambitions.
 
FILE -A bus carrying journalists takes a tour of the under construction Z-Morh tunnel in Sonamarg, northeast of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Sept. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)
India’s Modi inaugurates a strategic tunnel in disputed Kashmir
India’s prime minister marked the opening of a tunnel in the northeast of disputed Kashmir that will grant all-year accessibility to a town that is isolated by heavy snow each winter.
 
Security officials and others walk with the hearse carrying the body of former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh towards the cremation site in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Dec. 28, 2024. (AP Photo)
Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who instituted economic reforms, cremated in New Delhi
Manmohan Singh, the former Indian prime minister widely regarded as the architect of the country’s economic reform program, has been cremated after a state funeral.
 
Indian Prime Minster Manmohan Singh addresses a press conference, in New Delhi, India, Friday, Jan. 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Harish Tyagi, Pool, File)
Leaders and politicians pay homage to India’s former prime minister, Manmohan Singh
Authorities in India have declared a seven-day mourning period to honor Manmohan Singh as politicians and public paid tributes to the country’s former prime minister widely regarded as the architect of India’s economic reform program.
 
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh greets the crowd during an election campaign rally at Khumtai, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, Saturday, March 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath, File)
India’s former prime minister Manmohan Singh, architect of economic reforms, dies at 92
India’s former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, widely regarded as the architect of India’s economic reform program and a landmark nuclear deal with the United States, has died. He was 92.
 
Paramilitary soldiers stand guard outside the venue of swearing in ceremony of ministers of Kashmir's local government on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Kashmir gets a largely powerless government 5 years after India stripped its special status
Leaders of Kashmir’s biggest political party have been sworn into office to run a largely powerless local government for the first time after India stripped the region of its special status five years ago.
 
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at a news conference on the investigative efforts related to violent criminal activity occurring in Canada with connections to India, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)
Canada expels India’s top diplomat and alleges wider diplomatic involvement in crimes
Canada says it has identified India’s top diplomat in the country as a person of interest in the assassination of a Sikh activist there and expelled him and five other diplomats.
 
National Conference party leader Farooq Abdullah, center, wearing black cap, is surrounded by journalists as party celebrate early leads in the election for a local government in Indian controlled Kashmir, Srinagar, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Biggest Kashmir party opposed to India’s stripping of region’s autonomy wins most seats in election
Kashmir’s biggest political party opposed to India’s stripping of the region’s semi-autonomy has won most seats in a local election. That’s according to official results on Tuesday.
 
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