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Pakistan
2 police officers, 4 Pakistani Taliban killed in a rare raid in Pakistan-held Kashmir
Authorities say security forces have raided a militant hideout in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, triggering a shootout that left two police officers and four Pakistani Taliban fighters dead.
 
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.
 
Local residents look at the Indian side of Kashmir from an empty tourists point in Karen, in the Neelum Valley near on the Line of Control, the de facto border that divides the disputed region of Kashmir, some 93 kilometres (58 miles) from Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan controlled Kashmir, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Ishfaq Hussain)
The threat of a war with India empties a scenic Pakistani valley of summer tourists
Neelum Valley in northern Pakistan attracts some 300,000 tourists each summer who marvel at its natural beauty. But the threat of war with nearby India has emptied its hotels.