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In this time of COVID-19, Kashmir endures a ‘double lockdown’ over India’s warmongering

By Asad Majeed Khan

An elderly man walks past a giant hoarding welcoming U.S. President Donald Trump in Agra, India, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020. Trump and the First Lady Melania Trump will be visiting Taj Mahal during their visit two-day trip to India. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Indian authorities scramble to give Trump a mega-rally

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Indians watch workers fix a billboard at an entrance of Sardar Patel stadium ahead of the visit of U.S. President Donald Trump in Ahmedabad, India, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020. Trump is visiting the city in Gujarat during a two-day trip to India to attend an event called "Namaste Trump," which translates to "Greetings, Trump," at a cricket stadium along the lines of a "Howdy Modi" rally attended by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Houston last September. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Narendra Modi, India drop $14 million on Donald Trump visit, rally

By Sheikh Saaliq - Associated Press

Supporters of the Aam Aadmi Party, or &quot;common man's&quot; party, celebrate as initial results show the party in the lead, at their party office in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. The polls put Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party against the incumbent Aam Aadmi Party, whose pro-poor policies have focused on fixing state-run schools and providing free health care and bus fares for women during the five years in power. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Stunning defeat for Modi’s party in New Delhi elections

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 1, 2020, file photo, an Indian student holds a placard during a protest against a new citizenship law in front of India Gate war memorial, in New Delhi, India. Campaigning for a crucial state election in India's capital has reached a fever pitch as members of the Hindu nationalist-led government call for violence against minority Muslims and invoke the specter of arch-nemesis Pakistan to reverse course after a pair of losses in recent state polls. The Delhi election on Feb. 8 has been seen as a referendum on the ruling party's response to nearly two months of protests across India against a new citizenship law that fast-tracks naturalization for some migrants of neighboring countries living in the country illegally of all South Asia's major religions except Islam. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)

New Delhi votes with Modi’s popularity on the line

By ASHOK SHARMA and AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

In this Monday, Feb. 3, 2020, photo, a supporter of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) holds a mace, used as a weapon by Hindu god Hanuman, as he shouts slogans during an election campaign rally for the upcoming Delhi elections in New Delhi, India. Campaigning for a crucial state election in India's capital has reached a fever pitch as members of the Hindu nationalist-led government call for violence against minority Muslims and invoke the specter of arch-nemesis Pakistan to reverse course after a pair of losses in recent state polls. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Poll pitch for India’s capital plays up growing divisions

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

India’s ruling party lawmaker threatens to shoot protesters

By EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019, file photo, Muslims read about the verdict in a decades-old land title dispute between Muslims and Hindus in a newspaper in Ayodhya, India. India’s largest Muslim political groups are divided over how to respond to a recent Supreme Court ruling that favors Hindus’ right to a disputed site 27 years after Hindu nationalist mobs tore down a 16th-century mosque there, unleashing torrents of religious-motivated violence. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)

India’s Muslims split in response to Hindu temple verdict

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Giant cutouts of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, and Maharashtra state Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis stand outside the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) office in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party and its ruling alliance partners are leading in elections in two key Indian states where voters cast ballots on Oct. 21. Modi’s BJP and its ally Shiv Sena are leading in the western state of Maharashtra, home to India’s financial capital Mumbai. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Tough challenge for Modi’s party in 2 key state elections

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, left, with his wife Anjali and son Arjun pose for media after casting their votes in Mumbai, India, Monday, Oct. 21, 2019. Voting is underway in two Indian states of Maharashtra in the west and Haryana in the north where the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headed by prime minister Narendra Modi is trying to win a second consecutive term. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

2 Indian states hold elections; Modi’s party expected to win

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014, file photo, Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid speaks at the inauguration ceremony of the Afghan National Agriculture Science and Technology University in Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan. The senior leader of India’s main opposition Congress party says the party’s struggles are to the point where it may not be able to win key upcoming state elections in 2019 or ensure its own future. Khurshid also says the party is facing attrition because it’s taking too long to come to terms with its defeat in May, 2019, national elections. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan, File)

Indian Congress party official sounds alarm on party’s fate

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

A school teacher Dresses up as a girl as a statue depicting Indian freedom leader Mahatma Gandhi's Dandi March, on the eve of Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019. Dandi March is the name given to the Salt Satyagraha (Salt March) where Gandhi and other freedom fighters marched 241 miles to the sea to make their own salt on April 6, 1930 as an act of civil disobedience against the British colonial rule. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Correction: India-Gandhi Anniversary story

By KRITHIKA VARAGUR - Associated Press

India arrests woman who accused politician of sexual assault

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FILE-In this May 21, 2019 file photo, United Progressive Alliance Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, center, with her son and the then Congress Party President Rahul Gandhi, pays homage to former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi on his death anniversary in New Delhi, India. Sonia Gandhi took back the reins of the party from her son Rahul on Saturday. She'll be interim president until the party elects a new leader. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

India’s main opposition Congress party in throes of crisis

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 8, 2019, file photo, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah attends the release of BJP's manifesto for the upcoming general elections in New Delhi, India. Modi’s vision of a Hindu India took a leap forward with his government’s decision in August to subsume Kashmir into the federal government by eliminating its special status and allowing anyone to buy property and move into the state, raising fears among residents that they will lose their distinct identity. Modi’s home minister, Amit Shah, considered the architect of the Hindu nationalist-led government’s aggressive agenda to convert India from a secular, multicultural democracy into a distinctly Hindu, culturally and politically homogenous state, sold the new policy on Kashmir to parliament by equating it with Pakistan, India’s staunch foe. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Modi’s vision of a Hindu India advanced by Kashmir changes

By AMRIT DHILLON - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 21, 2012, file photo, Indian lawmaker Sushma Swaraj speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Former Indian foreign minister Swaraj passed away in a New Delhi hospital on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019. She was 67. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)

India’s former foreign minister, Sushma Swaraj, dies at 67

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FILE- In this June 26, 2019 file photo, Indian protesters shout slogans as they hold placards and candles during a protest condemning mob lynching of Muslim youth Tabrez Ansari in Jharkhand state, in New Delhi, India. Dozens of Indian celebrities have asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene and stop rising incidents of attacks on minorities, misuse of religion by Hindu hard-liners and intolerance against dissent in the country. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)

Indian celebrities protest attacks on dissent, minorities

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

Newly elected lawmakers from India's ruling alliance led by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party raise their hands in support of Narendra Modi being elected their leader in New Delhi, India, Saturday, May 25, 2019. BJP president Amit Shah announced Modi's name as the leader of the National Democratic Alliance in a meeting of the lawmakers in the Central Hall of Parliament in New Delhi, paving the way for Modi's second five-year term as prime minister after a thunderous victory in national elections. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India’s president appoints Modi as premier for 2nd term

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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah, second left, and Home Minister Rajnath Singh, second right, present a giant floral garland to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the party headquarters in New Delhi, India, Thursday, May 23, 2019. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party claimed it had won reelection with a commanding lead in Thursday's vote count, while the stock market soared in anticipation of another five-year term for the pro-business Hindu nationalist leader. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Analysis: Economy, Hindu-first impact are Modi’s challenges

By AMRIT DHILLON - Associated Press

An election official checks electronic voting machines as counting votes of India's massive general elections begins in New Delhi, India, Thursday, May 23, 2019. The count is expected to conclude by the evening, with strong trends visible by midday. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

The Latest: Modi’s party surges to victory in Indian vote

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