PAHALGAM, India — India is pitching a Hindu pilgrimage to a snowy cave shrine in disputed, Muslim-majority Kashmir as evidence of peace in a state marred by decades of armed conflict amid popular resistance to Indian rule.
— India is pitching a Hindu pilgrimage to a snowy cave shrine in disputed, Muslim-majority Kashmir as evidence of peace in a state marred by decades of armed conflict amid popular resistance to Indian rule.
“We’re always in the news for the wrong reasons,” said Khalid Jahangir, deputy commissioner of Anantnag, the district in Kashmir where the yatra takes place. The Amarnath cave is covered with snow most of the year except for a short period in summer when it is open for the pilgrims. India and Pakistan have fought two wars over Kashmir, the Himalayan territory they both claim and which is divided between them, and came near to a third after a suicide bomb attack by a homegrown militants allied with a Pakistan-based extremist group on an Indian paramilitary convoy not far from the pilgrimage route.
“It has been India’s consistent position that all outstanding issues with Pakistan are discussed only bilaterally,” foreign ministry spokesman Raveesh Kumar said.
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