India's Modi opens strategic railway in contested 'crown jewel' Kashmir


Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 6, 2025, opened a strategic railway line to Kashmir he called “the crown jewel of India”. - Photo: EPA-EFE

SRINAGAR (India): Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his first visit to Kashmir on Friday (June 6) since a conflict with arch-rival Pakistan, opening a strategic railway line to the contested region he called "the crown jewel of India".

Modi launched a string of projects worth billions of dollars for the divided Muslim-majority territory, the centre of bitter rivalry between India and Pakistan since their independence from British rule in 1947.

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