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FILE-In this photograph provided by the Indian Army, army officers of India and China hold a meeting at Pangong lake region in Ladakh on the India-China border on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. India will not attend Friday's opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, after one of the torchbearers reportedly chosen by Chinese authorities riled up New Delhi's anger. India's foreign affairs spokesman Arindam Bagchi on Thursday said it was "regrettable that the Chinese side has chosen to politicize an event like the Olympics." (Indian Army via AP, File)
EXPLAINER: Why India won't send diplomat to China Olympics

By Sheikh Saaliq Feb. 04, 2022 02:13 AM EST

FILE- Indian traders reacting to the killing of Indian troops in a clash with Chinese soldiers in eastern Ladakh burn Chinese products and a poster president Xi Jinping during a protest in New Delhi, India, June 22, 2020. India will stay away from the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Winter Olympics with an Indian official accusing China of politicizing the event. India objected to China using a soldier involved in fighting with Indian forces in Eastern Ladakh as a torchbearer for the Olympics ceremony. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)
Riled up by torchbearer, India skips China Olympics opening

By Ashok Sharma Feb. 03, 2022 08:22 AM EST

This photograph provided by Indian navy shows, one of the men rescued by the navy from the Arabian sea being brought for medical attention at naval air station INS Shikra in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, May 18, 2021. The Indian navy is working to rescue crew members from a sunken barge and a second cargo vessel that was adrift Tuesday off the coast of Mumbai after Cyclone Tauktae, struck the western coast. (Indian Navy via AP)
India scours sea after barge sinks, 2nd adrift after cyclone

By Sheikh Saaliq May. 18, 2021 02:24 AM EDT

Dilshada Banoo, aunt of 16-year-old Athar Mushtaq, breaks down while talking to Associated Press in Bellow, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021. On the last week of 2020, Indian government forces killed Athar and two other young men during a controversial gunfight on the outskirts of the Indian-controlled Kashmir’s main city. Police did not call them anti-India militants but “hardcore associates of terrorists." They later buried them at a graveyard in a remote mountainous tourist resort miles away from their ancestral villages. Athar was the latest Kashmiri to be buried in a far-off graveyard after Indian authorities in a new controversial policy in 2020 started to consign blood-soaked bodies of scores of Kashmiri suspected rebels to unmarked graves, denying the mourning families a proper funeral and a burial. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)
In Kashmir, empty grave for teenager killed by Indian forces

By Shah Abbas, Sheikh Saaliq And Aijaz Hussain Jan. 07, 2021 12:27 AM EST

FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, file photo, Indian army soldiers walk along the line of control at the India- China border in Bumla in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. The Indian army said Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020, that China has released five Indian nationals who went missing earlier this month from the state of Arunachal Pradesh amid simmering tensions between the two countries along a disputed mountain frontier. The five men were hunters and will be quarantined for 14 days as a precaution against the coronavirus before being handed over to their families, the army said in a statement. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath, File)
China releases 5 missing Indian nationals amid standoff

Sep. 12, 2020 06:09 AM EDT

FILE- In this June 18, 2020 file photo, Indian army officers walk past the pyre of their colleague Colonel B. Santosh Babu, who was killed during a clash with Chinese soldiers in Ladakh region, during his funeral at Suryapet, about 140 kilometers (87.5 miles) from Hyderabad, India. Tensions along the disputed India-China border seem to be getting worse rather than better, three months after their deadliest confrontation in decades in June. The Asian giants accused each other this week of sending soldiers into each other’s territory and fired warning shots for the first time in 45 years, raising the specter of full-scale military conflict. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A, File)
AP Explains: What's driving India-China military standoff

By Aijaz Hussain Sep. 10, 2020 05:20 AM EDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 1, 2020, file photo, a Bharatiya Janata Party activist burns a photograph of Chinese President Xi Jinping during a protest in Jammu, India. As the escalating and bitter military standoff between India and China protracts following their bloodiest confrontation in decades in the Ladakh region in 2020, experts warn the two nuclear-armed countries can unintentionally slide into a war over the roof of the world. Both the Asian giants have accused the other of fresh provocations, including allegations of soldiers crossing into each other’s territory this week and vowed to protect their territorial integrity. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)
Experts warn China-India standoff risks unintentional war

By Aijaz Hussain Sep. 06, 2020 05:32 AM EDT

FILE- In this June 17, 2020, file photo, an Indian army convoy moves on the Srinagar- Ladakh highway at Gagangeer, north-east of Srinagar, India. India said Monday its soldiers thwarted China's "provocative" military movements near a disputed border in Ladakh region amid a monthslong standoff. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan, File)
India says China's military made moves near disputed border

By Aijaz Hussain Aug. 31, 2020 04:36 AM EDT

Paramilitary soldiers stands guard at an temporary check point on the first anniversary of India’s decision to revoke the disputed region’s semi-autonomy, in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020. Last year on Aug. 5, India’s Hindu-nationalist-led government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi stripped Jammu-Kashmir of its statehood and divided it into two federally governed territories. Late Tuesday, authorities lifted a curfew in Srinagar but said restrictions on public movement, transport and commercial activities would continue because of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)
Virus lockdown shuts Kashmir year after India lifts autonomy

By Aijaz Hussain Aug. 05, 2020 02:45 AM EDT

FILE - This Feb. 25, 2020, photo shows the icon for TikTok taken in New York. India is banning 59 apps with Chinese links, saying their activities endanger the country’s sovereignty, defense and security. India’s decision comes as its troops are in a tense standoff with Chinese soldiers in eastern Ladakh in the Himalayas that started last month. India lost 20 soldiers in a June 15 clash. The government says the banned apps include TikTok, UC Browser, WeChat and Bigo Live, as well as the e-commerce platforms Club Factory and Shein, that are used in mobile and non-mobile devices connected to the Internet.(AP Photo, File)
India bans TikTok, other Chinese apps amid border standoff

By Emily Schmall Jun. 30, 2020 07:20 AM EDT

Santoshi wife of Indian Army Colonel B. Santosh Babu, mourns after receiving the uniform and National flag during the last rites ceremony at their home town at Suryapet, about 140 kilometers (87.5 miles) from Hyderabad, India, Thursday, June 18, 2020. Babu was among the twenty Indian troops who were killed in the clash Monday night that was the deadliest conflict between the sides in 45 years. India on Thursday cautioned China against making "exaggerated and untenable claims" to the Galvan Valley area even as both nations tried to end a standoff in the high Himalayan region where their armies engaged in a deadly clash. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
India seeks eased tensions with China after Himalayas clash

By Ashok Sharma And Emily Schmall Jun. 18, 2020 02:12 AM EDT

An Indian army convoy moves on the Srinagar- Ladakh highway at Gagangeer, north-east of Srinagar, India, Wednesday, June 17, 2020. Indian security forces said neither side fired any shots in the clash in the Ladakh region late Monday that was the first deadly confrontation on the disputed border between India and China since 1975. China said Wednesday that it is seeking a peaceful resolution to its Himalayan border dispute with India following the death of 20 Indian soldiers in the most violent confrontation in decades. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
Deadly clash in the Himalayas ups ante for China and India

By Emily Schmall Jun. 17, 2020 06:42 AM EDT

Kashmiri Bakarwal nomads walk as an Indian army convoy moves on the Srinagar- Ladakh highway at Gagangeer, north-east of Srinagar, India, Wednesday, June 17, 2020. Indian security forces said neither side fired any shots in the clash in the Ladakh region late Monday that was the first deadly confrontation on the disputed border between India and China since 1975. China said Wednesday that it is seeking a peaceful resolution to its Himalayan border dispute with India following the death of 20 Indian soldiers in the most violent confrontation in decades. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
China, India disavow clash but pledge to end border standoff

By Sam Mcneil And Ashok Sharma Jun. 17, 2020 12:28 AM EDT

A Kashmiri girl watches relatives and neighbors mourn the death of a civilian Mehraj-ud-din Shah outside his home in Makhama village, west of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, May 13, 2020. Indian soldiers fatally shot the young man at a checkpoint in the Himalayan region of Kashmir on Wednesday, residents and officials said, triggering anti-India protests and clashes in the disputed region. India’s Central Reserve Police Force said the man was driving a car and ignored signals to stop at two checkpoints in the western outskirts of Srinagar, the region’s main city. The victim’s father, Ghulam Nabi Shah, denied the police account, saying his son did not drive through any checkpoints, and that soldiers first stopped him and then shot him. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)
Soldiers shoot man in Kashmir, triggering anti-India clashes

May. 13, 2020 07:10 AM EDT

A Kashmiri muslim woman Shaida weeps after she and her son were injured by shotgun pellet allegedly fired by police inside their home in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, Aug. 8, 2020. Shaida said policemen fired shotgun pellets following an argument with them on Friday. India has stepped up its counterinsurgency operations across Kashmir in recent months during a coronavirus lockdown. Militants have also continued their attacks on government forces and alleged informants. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
Anti-India clashes continue in tense Kashmir for 3rd day

By Aijaz Hussain May. 08, 2020 09:57 AM EDT

3 Pakistanis, 1 Indian killed in exchange of fire in Kashmir

By Roshan Mughal Apr. 30, 2020 01:50 PM EDT
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani and Indian troops traded fire in the disputed region of Kashmir, killing three Pakistanis and a teenage Indian student,...

Pakistan's army says Indian troops kill woman in Kashmir

Associated Press Apr. 27, 2020 10:01 AM EDT
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Cross-border fire from Indian troops along the disputed border with Kashmir killed one woman and wounded an eight-year-old girl, Pakistan's...