Mountain connection: Modi visiting Chenab Rail Bridge during the inauguration of the Kashmir rail link in Kashmir. — AFP
Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his first visit to Kashmir 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 territory, the centre of bitter rivalry between India and Pakistan since their independence from British rule in 1947.
