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An Indian Paramilitary soldier mans a barricade on a deserted street during curfew in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019. The lives of millions in India's only Muslim-majority region have been upended since the latest, and most serious, crackdown followed a decision by New Delhi to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and downgrade the Himalayan region from statehood to a territory. Kashmir is claimed in full by both India and Pakistan, and rebels have been fighting Indian rule in the portion it administers for decades. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

The Latest: Strict curfew eased in Kashmir, tensions high

Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, March 14, 2019, file photo, an Indian paramilitary soldier holds a flag of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as he stands guard during a meeting of the party ahead of the upcoming elections in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised early elections in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir days after stripping it of statehood and turning it into a federally administered territory. In an address to the nation late Thursday, Aug. 8, Modi said the change in Kashmir’s set-up will help free the disputed region of “terrorism and separatism” and put it on a path of development. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan, File)

Roadmap for India’s troubled Kashmir under its new status

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

A Kashmiri plays cricket in a deserted area during curfew in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019. The lives of millions in India's only Muslim-majority region have been upended since the latest, and most serious, crackdown followed a decision by New Delhi to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and downgrade the Himalayan region from statehood to a territory. Kashmir is claimed in full by both India and Pakistan, and rebels have been fighting Indian rule in the portion it administers for decades. (AP Photo/Sheikh Saaliq)

Pre-dawn food run then rush home: Kashmir under curfew

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 26, 1947, file photo, a cart loaded with children and household goods belonging to a Muslim family fleeing from Hindu India moves along a road near Lahore, India. In 1947 Britain left the Indian subcontinent divided as predominantly Hindu India and mainly Muslim Pakistan. Massive migrations of Hindus and Muslims to their country of choice trigged violence, leaving more than million people dead. (AP Photo/Max Desfor, File)

Key events in Kashmir since British rule ended in 1947

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A Kashmiri man receives treatment for pellet injuries at the Shri Maharaja Hari Singh (SMHS) hospital in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019. Tens of thousands of government forces in riot gear patrol Indian-controlled Kashmir. Streets lined with shuttered shops are deserted, steel barricades and razor wire cutting off neighborhoods. At the SMHS hospital, doctors told The Associated Press on Thursday that at least 50 people had come in with wounds from pellet guns and rubber bullets, the ammunition security forces often use to disperse protests. (AP Photo/Sheikh Saaliq)

Kashmir’s streets silent as people’s despair and rage grow

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - 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

In this Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019 photo, a Kashmiri municipal worker pushes his cart filled with trash as Indian paramilitary soldiers patrol during curfew in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. Authorities in Hindu-majority India clamped a complete shutdown on Kashmir as they scrapped the Muslim-majority state's special status, including exclusive hereditary rights and a separate constitution, and divided it into two territories. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

The Latest: UN chief urges no action on Kashmir status

Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 26, 1947, file photo, a cart loaded with children and household goods belonging to a Muslim family fleeing from Hindu India moves along a road near Lahore, India. In 1947 Britain left the Indian subcontinent divided as predominantly Hindu India and mainly Muslim Pakistan. Massive migrations of Hindus and Muslims to their country of choice trigged violence, leaving more than million people dead. (AP Photo/Max Desfor, File)

Key events in Kashmir since British rule ended in 1947

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019 photo, a deserted street is seen through a barbwire set up as blockade during curfew in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. Authorities in Hindu-majority India clamped a complete shutdown on Kashmir as they scrapped the Muslim-majority state's special status, including exclusive hereditary rights and a separate constitution, and divided it into two territories. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

No phone calls, no groceries: Kashmir on edge under lockdown

By Aijaz Hussain and Sheikh Saaliq - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019 photo, an Indian Paramilitary soldiers orders a Kashmiri man to turn back near a temporary check point during curfew in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. Authorities in Hindu-majority India clamped a complete shutdown on Kashmir as they scrapped the Muslim-majority state's special status, including exclusive hereditary rights and a separate constitution, and divided it into two territories. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

India’s changes in Kashmir create long-term uncertainty

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

Indian Paramilitary soldiers drag barbwire as they prepare to impose curfew in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. Authorities in Hindu-majority India clamped a complete shutdown on Kashmir as they scrapped the Muslim-majority state's special status, including exclusive hereditary rights and a separate constitution, and divided it into two territories. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

India arrests more than 500 in Kashmir as Pakistan cuts railway

By Ashok Sharma and Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

In this Friday, July 22, 2011, file photo, children play cricket by Pangong Lake, near the India-China border in Ladakh, India. India’s surprise move in August 2019, to carve out the sparsely populated region of Ladakh from the state of Jammu and Kashmir and make it into a territory directly controlled by New Delhi has been met with protests in Kargil, a Muslim-majority border city in Ladakh that identifies culturally with Kashmir, suggesting that the Hindu nationalist-led government’s plan to redraw the country’s political map will be far from easy. Mountainous Jammu and Kashmir comprises three regions: Hindu-majority Jammu, Muslim-majority Kashmir, and heavily Buddhist Ladakh. Ladakh borders Tibet to the east and the Chinese territory of Xinjiang in the far north. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)

India’s splitting of Kashmir opposed in Muslim border city

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Pakistani students attend an anti-Indian rally in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. Pakistan has decided to downgrade its diplomatic ties with neighboring India and suspend bilateral trade in response to New Delhi's decision to reduce the special status of Kashmir, a Himalayan region claimed by both countries. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Pakistan downgrades diplomatic ties with India over Kashmir

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das speaks during a press conference in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. India's central bank on Wednesday cut its key interest rate for the fourth consecutive time, reducing the repo rate by 0.35% to 5.40% to shore up the economy, with consumer spending and corporate investment faltering and the production of capital goods and consumer durables decelerating. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

India’s central bank cuts lending rate to 5.40%

Associated Press

Indian migrant laborers carry their luggage and prepare to leave the region, at a railway station in Jammu, India, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. Indian lawmakers passed a bill Tuesday that strips statehood from the Indian-administered portion of Muslim-majority Kashmir, which remains under an indefinite security lockdown, actions that archrival Pakistan warned could lead to war. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Hundreds of poor migrant workers flee Kashmir under lockdown

By CHANNI ANAND - 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

Associated Press

An Indian paramilitary soldier guards during security lockdown in Jammu, India, Tuesday, Aug.6, 2019. India's lower house of Parliament was set to ratify a bill Tuesday that would downgrade the governance of India-administered, Muslim-majority Kashmir amid an indefinite security lockdown in the disputed Himalayan region. The Hindu nationalist-led government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi moved the &quot;Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Bill&quot; for a vote by the Lok Sahba a day after the measure was introduced alongside a presidential order dissolving a constitutional provision that gave Kashmiris exclusive, hereditary rights. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

The Latest: China concerned with rising tension over Kashmir

Associated Press

An Indian paramilitary soldier stops a commuter during curfew like restrictions in Jammu, India, Monday, Aug. 5, 2019. An indefinite security lockdown was in place in the Indian-controlled portion of divided Kashmir on Monday, stranding millions in their homes as authorities also suspended some internet services and deployed thousands of fresh troops around the increasingly tense region. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

The Latest: UN chief worried about rising tensions in region

Associated Press

In this Wednesday, July 17, 2019, photo, an Indian fixes bait for fish, sitting on the dried up bed of Red Hills lake, a 4,500-acre 19th-century reservoir, in Chennai, capital of the Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. In Chennai, a coastal city of about 10 million and the capital of Tamil Nadu state, rapid development and rampant construction have overtaxed a once-abundant natural water supply, forcing the government to spend huge sums to desalinate sea water, bring water by train from hundreds of kilometers (miles) away and deploy an army of water trucks to people whose household taps have suddenly run dry. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India’s Chennai rapid growth threatened by water shortages

By EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

An Indian paramilitary soldier stops a commuter during curfew like restrictions in Jammu, India, Monday, Aug. 5, 2019. An indefinite security lockdown was in place in the Indian-controlled portion of divided Kashmir on Monday, stranding millions in their homes as authorities also suspended some internet services and deployed thousands of fresh troops around the increasingly tense region. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Q&A: India’s change to disputed Kashmir’s status

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press