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An Indian paramilitary soldier guards at the Dal Lake ahead of G20 tourism working group meeting in Srinagar Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, May 18, 2023. Indian authorities have stepped up security and deployed elite commandos to prevent rebel attacks during the meeting of officials from the Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations in the disputed region next week. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

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With G20 event, India seeks to project normalcy in disputed Kashmir
By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press
Fri,05/19/23-12:05AM , 215 Reads
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — As India prepares to host a meeting of tourism officials from the Group of 20 in the disputed region of Kashmir, authorities have deployed elite commandos and stepped up security in the region's largest city.
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Village Defense Group members patrol during night at Muradpur village in Rajouri, India, Feb. 8, 2023. Days after seven Hindus were killed in the village in disputed Kashmir, hundreds of residents staged protests across the region's Hindu-dominated areas. In response, Indian authorities revived a government-sponsored militia and began rearming and training villagers. The militia, officially called the “Village Defense Group,” was initially formed in the 1990s as the first line of defense against anti-India insurgents in remote villages that government forces could not reach quickly. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

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India revives civil militia after Hindu killings in Kashmir
By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press
Mon,02/27/23-9:12PM , 580 Reads
DHANGRI, India (AP) — After seven Hindus were killed in early January in two back-to-back attacks in Dhangri village in disputed Kashmir, former Indian army soldier Satish Kumar described his sleepy mountainous village as an “abode of
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Dolma Angmo, wife of nomad Tsering Angchuk, attends her hardy Himalayan goats that produce cashmere in the remote Kharnak village in the cold desert region of Ladakh, India, Sunday, Sept. 17, 2022. Angchuk is determined to herd his flock of fine cashmere-producing goats in the treeless Kharnak village, a hauntingly beautiful but unforgiving, cold mountainous desert. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

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Ladakh herders endeavor to save future on climate frontier
By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press
Mon,12/12/22-10:01PM , 355 Reads
KHARNAK, India (AP) — Nomad Tsering Angchuk vows to stay put in his remote village in India’s Ladakh region.
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Lights shine in Leh in the cold desert region of Ladakh, India, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. Konchok Dorjey gave up his pastoral life in search of a better future for his family. He sold off his animals and migrated to an urban settlement in the outskirts of Leh. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

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Climate Migration: Nomads move to towns in warming Ladakh
By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press
Tue,11/01/22-10:30PM , 364 Reads
KHARNAK, India (AP) — For decades, Konchok Dorjey grazed the world’s finest cashmere-producing goats in the arid, treeless Kharnak village in India’s Ladakh region, a high mountainous cold desert that borders China and Pakistan. But a decade ago, the 45-year-old nomad gave up his pastoral life in search of a better future for his family.
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