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Arif Mohd Khan, of India, carries his country's flag during the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 4, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Indian skier happy just to finish after snowy Olympic race

By Daniella Matar Feb. 13, 2022 08:14 AM EST

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

Transgender Kashmiri Khushi Mir rests in her rented room on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, June 4, 2021. Until the pandemic, singing and dancing at weddings used to earn Mir enough income to take care of her family. Unable to pay for her rented accommodation, the 19-year-old took a job as a construction worker for 15 days that paid $9.60 a day. Mir has set up a charity, along with four friends, to distribute food kits to members of the transgender community. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)
AP PHOTOS: Virus left transgender Kashmiris 'on our own'

By Dar Yasin Jun. 15, 2021 12:57 AM EDT

Pakistan's top health official Faisal Sultan poses for photograph at his office in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, May 24, 2021. Sultan who is overseeing the country's response to coronavirus said Monday the new COVID-19 variant that devastated neighboring India by causing record infections and deaths had not been found in Pakistan yet. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
Top Pakistan health official doesn't foresee India scenario

By Munir Ahmed May. 24, 2021 12:34 PM EDT

Mohammed Ashraf Sehrai, sitting wearing cap, listens as separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, standing, addresses a demonstration against the government in Srinagar, India, April 16, 2008. Sehrai, a prominent politician in Kashmir who challenged India’s rule over the disputed region for decades died Wednesday while in police custody. He was 78. (AP Photo /Mukhtar Khan)
Staunch anti-India Kashmir politician dies in police custody

By Aijaz Hussain May. 05, 2021 08:23 AM EDT

Priestess Laura D'Oya Yalorixa, right, hugs a devotee during an Umbanda religious ceremony closed to the public due to the COVID-19 pandemic but broadcast live, marking St. George's Day at the Casa de Caridade Santa Bárbara Iansa in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, April 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
AP PHOTOS: A month of religious holidays, pyres and prayer

Apr. 29, 2021 08:01 AM EDT

A body of a COVID 19 victim waits to be cremated in New Delhi, India, Monday, April 19, 2021. New Delhi has imposed a weeklong lockdown to prevent the collapse of the Indian capital's health system amid an explosive surge in coronavirus cases. Authorities said Monday that hospitals have been pushed to their limit. India now has reported more than 15 million coronavirus infections, a total second only to the United States. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
India's capital to lock down amid explosive virus surge

By Aijaz Hussain And Aniruddha Ghosal Apr. 19, 2021 04:02 AM EDT

Indonesian Muslims pray spaced apart as they practice social distancing to curb the spread of the new coronavirus during an evening prayer called "tarawih" marking the first eve of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia. Monday, April 12, 2021. During Ramadan, the holiest month in Islamic calendar, Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex from dawn to dusk. (AP Photo/ Achmad Ibrahim)
Muslims mark Ramadan amid virus surge and new restrictions

By Amr Nabil And Niniek Karmini Apr. 12, 2021 11:37 PM EDT

Ramasha Rizwan, an Indian tourist is helped by a Kashmiri ski instructor to ski down a slop in Afarwat, Gulmarg, northwest of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021. Rizwan, said Kashmir is beautiful, it is mesmerizing, and the views are spectacular. I snapped my friends, and they were like, oh are you abroad? How do you go there? I said no, it's Kashmir. And I am really enjoying myself right now"(AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)
AP Photos: Snow fills Kashmir resort with tourists again

By Dar Yasin Jan. 18, 2021 08:45 PM EST

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

Kashmiris stand in a queue to cast their votes during the first phase of District Development Councils election on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020. Thousands of people in Indian-controlled Kashmir voted Saturday amid tight security and freezing cold temperatures in the first phase of local elections, the first since New Delhi revoked the disputed region's semiautonomous status. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
Kashmir people vote in local polls amid cold and security

By Aijaz Hussain Nov. 28, 2020 04:19 AM EST

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Bihar state President Sanjay Jaiswal arrives at the party headquarters after NDA's lead during the counting of votes ofthe Bihar state assembly polls, in Patna, India, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Aftab Alam Siddiqui)
Modi's party, allies win vote in India's key Bihar state

By Indrajit Singh Nov. 10, 2020 12:35 PM EST

An election officer checks the temperature of a voter before allowing voters to pass at a polling station, during the first phase of state elections at Paliganj, in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. With an overall declining coronavirus positive trend, Indian authorities decided to hold the first state legislature election since the outbreak of COVID-19. People began voting Wednesday in the country’s third largest state Bihar with of a population of about 122 million people. (AP Photo/Aftab Alam Siddiqui)
India holds first major state elections since pandemic

By Indrajit Singh Oct. 28, 2020 03:31 AM EDT

A man wearing a scarf as a precaution against the coronavirus offers prayers at Shakti Ganesh temple in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
AP PHOTOS: From memorial to protest, the power of prayer

Oct. 01, 2020 09:07 AM EDT

In this photo made from UNTV video, Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, speaks in a pre-recorded message which was played during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, at UN Headquarters. (UNTV Via AP )
At UN, India vows to help produce virus vaccine for world

By Jennifer Peltz Sep. 27, 2020 01:13 PM EDT

In this image made from UNTV video, Imran Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan, speaks in a pre-recorded message which was played during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, at UN headquarters. (UNTV via AP)
At UN, Pakistani leader says India sponsors anti-Muslim hate

By Munir Ahmed And Aya Batrawy Sep. 25, 2020 03:24 PM EDT

In this image made from UNTV video, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks in a pre-recorded message which was played during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, at UN headquarters, in New York. (UNTV via AP)
The Latest: Boris Johnson to urge global unity against virus

By The Associated Press Sep. 25, 2020 10:28 AM EDT

Kashmiri men carry rice plates before serving them to guests during a wedding ceremony on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, Sept. 18, 2020. The coronavirus pandemic has changed the way people celebrate weddings in Kashmir. The traditional week-long feasting , elaborate rituals and huge gatherings have given way to muted ceremonies with a limited number of close relatives attending. With restrictions in place and many weddings cancelled, the traditional wedding chefs have little or no work. The virus has drastically impacted the life and businesses in the region. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)
AP PHOTOS: Pandemic dampens Kashmir weddings, lavish feasts

By Dar Yasin Sep. 22, 2020 12:49 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