Kashmiri boatmen row their Shikara on Dal Lake in the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Tuesday, May 14, 2013. Set in the Himalayas at 1,707 meters (5,600 feet) above sea level, Kashmir is a green, saucer-shaped valley full of fruit orchards and surrounded by snowy mountain ranges. About 100 lakes dot its highlands and plains.
Activists of India s right wing party Shiv Sena burn a mock Chinese flag during a protest in Jammu, India, Friday, April 26, 2013. India has accused Chinese soldiers of launching an incursion far into Indian territory, in the latest flare-up of tension between the two Asian giants over their de facto boundary in the Himalayas. Chinese troops entered 10 kilometers (six miles) into Indian territory on April 15 and pitched tents in the Depsang valley in the Ladakh region of eastern Kashmir, an Indian official said Tuesday, April 23, 2013.
Activists of the Indian right-wing Hindu organisation Shiv Sena shout slogans as they burn a China national flag while protesting against the land grabbing by China in Ladakh during a demonstration in Amritsar on April 25, 2013. India's Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid said Thursday he would visit China on May 9 amid high tensions between the neighbours due to a flare-up at their disputed border. New Delhi says a platoon of Chinese troops moved into Indian territory on April 15 in a remote and desolate part of the Himalayas where the border is disputed.
Activists of India's National Panthers Party shout slogans as they burn an effigy of former Chinese president Hu Jintao during a protest in New Delhi on April 24, 2013, after an alleged incursion into Indian territory by Chinese troops. India's foreign ministry said that it had asked China to withdraw troops who have allegedly advanced into disputed territory claimed by New Delhi in a remote area of the Himalayas.
Indian policeman stand near the coffin containing the body of the slain British tourist after she was embalmed at a Government Medical collage in Srinagar on April 7, 2013. A young British woman holidaying in Indian Kashmir was found dead in a pool of blood on a houseboat Saturday, police said after arresting a Dutch man on suspicion of her murder. The 43-year-old Dutch national was taken into custody as he tried to flee the scenic Kashmir valley in the foothills of the Himalayas police superintendent Tahir Sajjad told.
Houseboat owner Abdul Rahim Shoda (L) speaks on his mobile phone near the house boat where a young British woman was found murdered in Srinagar on April 6, 2013. A British woman holidaying in Indian Kashmir was found dead 'in a pool of blood' on a houseboat and a Dutch man has been arrested on suspicion of her murder, police said on Saturday. The 43-year-old Dutch national was taken into custody as he tried to flee the scenic Kashmir valley in the foothills of the Himalayas, police superintendent Tahir Sajjad told.
