3 photojournalists linked with Associated Press won Pulitzer Prize for best feature photography for Kashmir life. See award-winning pics

This year, the US-based Pulitzer Prize for best feature photography has been awarded to three Associated Press (AP) photographers -- Mukhtar Khan and Dar Yasin from Kashmir and Channi Anand from Jammu, "for their striking images of life in the contested territory of Kashmir as India revoked its independence, executed through a communications blackout".

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An Indian Border Security Force (BSF) soldier keeps vigil near the India Pakistan border at Garkhal in Akhnoor, about 35 kilometers (22 miles) west of Jammu, India, Aug. 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)


Flames and smoke billow from a residential building where militants are suspected to have taken refuge during a gun battle in Pulwama, south of Srinagar, Feb. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)


Kashmiri Muslim devotees offer prayer outside the shrine of Sufi saint Sheikh Syed Abdul Qadir Jeelani in Srinagar, Dec. 9, 2019. Hundreds of devotees gathered at the shrine for the 11-day festival that marks the death anniversary of the Sufi saint. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)


A masked Kashmiri protester jumps on the bonnet of an armored vehicle of Indian police as he throws stones at it during a protest in Srinagar, May 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)



Women shout slogans as policemen fire teargas and live ammunition in the air to stop a protest march in Srinagar, Aug. 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)


Masked Kashmiris shout slogans during a protest after Friday prayers on the outskirts of Srinagar, Oct. 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

A wounded woman is carried on a stretcher for treatment after she was injured in a bus accident, at a local hospital in Srinagar, June 27, 2019. A minibus carrying students to a picnic fell into a gorge along a Himalayan road in Kashmir, killing more than 10 and injuring several others. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Kashmiri Muslim children attend recitation classes of the holy Quran on the first day of the fasting month of Ramadan in Srinagar, May 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Kashmiri men dismantle a portion of a house destroyed in a gunbattle in Tral village, south of Srinagar, Kashmir, March 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Kashmiri men shout freedom slogans during a protest against the central government's tightened grip on the disputed region, after Friday prayers on the outskirts of Srinagar, Aug. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

An Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard as Kashmiri Muslims offer Friday prayers on a street outside a local mosque during curfew-like restrictions in Srinagar, Aug. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

An Indian paramilitary soldier orders a Kashmiri to open his jacket before frisking him during curfew in Srinagar, Aug. 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Indian paramilitary soldiers break motorbikes parked outside a college as they clash with students protesting against the alleged rape of a 3-year-old girl in Srinagar, May 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

A Kashmiri boy tries to take out a bullet from the wall of a damaged house after a gunbattle in Tral, south of Srinagar, May 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

An elderly Kashmiri man sits outside a closed market during a strike in Srinagar, Feb. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Six-year-old Muneefa Nazir, a Kashmiri girl whose right eye was hit by a marble ball shot allegedly by Indian paramilitary soldiers on Aug. 12, stands outside her home in Srinagar, Sept. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Indian policemen guard as Kashmiri Muslims pray while the head priest, unseen, displays a relic of Islam's Prophet Muhammad at the Hazratbal shrine, on the occasion of the Prophet's birth anniversary in Srinagar, India, Nov. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

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