A girl looks on as women wait in line to vote outside a polling station during the second phase of the assembly elections in Kashmir's Budgam district, September 25, 2024. REUTERS/Sanna Irshad Mattoo TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
SRINAGAR (Reuters) - Foreign diplomats from 15 countries were allowed to observe local elections in India's Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, as New Delhi highlighted the first vote in the disputed Himalayan territory in a decade.
It was the first time India has invited foreign diplomats to witness voting in the region, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government stripped of its partial autonomy five years ago, though Delhi has hosted similar trips on other occasions and a G20 meeting on tourism there last year.
