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Byline: Fahad Shah Correspondent Abstract: India's curb on separatist militancy and other forms of dissent pushes new candidates - and voters - to participate in local elections in Kashmir. Street [...]

Byline: Fahad Shah Correspondent Abstract: For India's new coalition government to last, experts say Prime Minister Narendra Modi must find ways to temper his party's Hindu nationalism and compromise on [...]

Byline: Fahad Shah Correspondent Abstract: In the first election since Delhi revoked their regional autonomy, Kashmiris are hoping to reclaim some sense of agency. Kashaf ul Khair returned to her [...]

Byline: Fahad Shah Correspondent Abstract: New Delhi's riots, which began during Donald Trump's state visit to the capital last month, left dozens of people dead, mostly Muslims. In just one [...]

Byline: Fahad Shah Correspondent Abstract: Thousands have been arrested in Kashmir since August, when the Indian government stripped the partially autonomous region of its special status. The ashes are cold [...]

Byline: Fahad Shah Correspondent Abstract: India's decision to revoke Kashmir's special status and statehood has prompted a week of curfews, barbed wire, and confusion. For the past week, since India's [...]

Byline: Fahad Shah Correspondent Abstract: Disputes over Kashmir have long colored India and Pakistan's relations, and call for farsighted solutions. But with elections just months away, some worry that short-term [...]

Byline: Fahad Shah A few years ago, when Insha Bashir Mir began playing cricket in her neighborhood playground, she was ridiculed by neighbors who told her not to play a [...]

Byline: Fahad Shah Talk to the young protesters in Indian-administered Kashmir today, and you will find more than the familiar slogans against India. Young people are at the forefront of [...]

Byline: Fahad Shah Masood Hussain fondly remembers the 1970s and '80s in his native Kashmir - a place that was peaceful and verdant, where the now 63-year-old artist could interact [...]

Byline: Fahad Shah The killing of a popular young militant on Friday in Indian-controlled Kashmir threatens to open a new chapter of violence and agitation in the long-troubled region. Indian [...]

Byline: Fahad Shah A rise in violent attacks by Hindu extremists continues to be matched by pointed protests from an array of leading authors, scientists, historians, artists and other public [...]

Byline: Fahad Shah India is absorbed, as the clock ticks, with the fate of high-profile death row inmate Yakub Memon, scheduled to be hanged on Thursday for his role in [...]

Byline: Fahad Shah A former Indian spy chief is creating a political firestorm in the Kashmir Valley with charges that key insurgent leaders of the long time resistance movement, as [...]

Byline: Syed Nazakat and Fahad Shah The Kashmir valley and its chief city of Srinagar are nestled beneath the snowy Himalayan mountains and have been written about and praised by [...]

Byline: Fahad Shah Kashmiris have lived in tension with Indian soldiers for decades. The Kashmir Valley is called Indian-controlled Kashmir by the overwhelmingly Muslim majority here and most chafe at [...]

Byline: Fahad Shah When Mohammad Muneem, a singer and songwriter in southwestern India saw images on television of the flooded Kashmir Valley, he panicked. Mr. Muneem's family lives in Srinagar, [...]

Byline: Fahad Shah Government tallies in Kashmir find that 2012 was the most peaceful year since an armed rebellion began in the disputed region in 1989. Despite that, no measures [...]

Byline: Fahad Shah The Indian Supreme Court is directing the government of the disputed region of Kashmir to construct a paved road through miles of a delicate mountain ecosystem in [...]