Inside India: Election Special, Kashmir

Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front activists hold torches as they shout slogans in Srinagar during a rally against the continuing Indian general elections. JKLF and several other separatist organisations have jointly appealed to the people of Jammu and Kashmir to boycott Indian parliamentary elections. Rouf Bhat / AFP Photo

Supporters listen as unseen union minister, patron for the National Conference and candidate for Srinagar’s seat for the lower house of parliament in India’s general election Farooq Abdullah speaks during an election rally in Chadoora. Tauseef Mustafa / AFP Photo

A Kashmiri Muslim voter has her finger marked with ink before casting her ballot at a polling station at Bijbehara some 42 kms south of Srinagar. Tauseef Mustafa / AFP Photo

An Indian policeman checks voter cards of Kashmiri Muslim women before they are processed so they can cast their ballots at a local polling station during the early morning at Bijbehara. Tauseef Mustafa / AFP Photo

Indian voters are processed so they can cast their ballot at a local polling station during the early morning at Bijbehara. Tauseef Mustafa / AFP Photo

A Kashmiri Muslim sits at a graveyard during the funeral of Ghulam Nabi Mir, a village council head, and his son Firdous Ahmad Mir in Batgund, south of Srinagar. Militants killed three men including Mir and Firdous in the restive Kashmir region on Monday, police said, in attacks that appeared intended to intimidate locals who are due to vote in a general election this week. Danish Ismail / Rueters

Saheema Akhtar wife of Mohammed Amin Pandith, a village council head, who was killed by militants, sits with relatives inside her house in Gulzarpora, south of Srinagar. Danish Ismail / Reuters

A Kashmiri Muslim woman casts her ballot at a polling station in Bijbehara, some 42 kms south of Srinagar. Indian Kashmir’s Anantnag constituency goes for voting in the country’s continuing elections on April 24, the first in the restive Himalayan valley of Kashmir where a separatist movement against Indian rule is centred. Tauseef Mustafa / AFP Photo

Kashmiri Muslim women walk before casting their ballots at a polling station in Bijbehara. Tauseef Mustafa / AFP Photo

A supporter of Kashmir's ruling National Conference party shout slogans during an election campaign rally addressed by Kashmir's chief minister Omar Abdullah, at Duroo, south of Srinagar. Danish Ismail / Reuters

A view of news and daily life on the Indian subcontinent for the week of April 24, 2014.