The pictures that won Pulitzer 2020

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These images were part of a series of photographs by Associated Press photographers which won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.
Three Jammu and Kashmir-based photojournalists— Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan and Channi Anand won prestigious Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of Kashmir’s lockdown after the dilution of Article 370.
Border Security Force (BSF) soldier keeps vigil near the India Pakistan border at Garkhal in Akhnoor, about 35 kilometers (22 miles) west of Jammu. 
Photo by Channi Anand

Kashmiri Muslim devotees offer prayer outside the shrine of Sufi saint Sheikh Syed Abdul Qadir Jeelani in Srinagar, Kashmir. Hundreds of devotees gathered at the shrine for the 11-day festival that marks the death anniversary of the Sufi saint.
Photo by Mukhtar Khan

A Kashmiri man walks on a snow covered footbridge as it snows in the interiors of Dal Lake in Srinagar, Kashmir. 
Photo by Dar Yasin

Six-year-old Muneefa Nazir, a Kashmiri girl whose right eye was hit by a marble ball shot allegedly by Indian Paramilitary soldiers on Aug. 12, stands outside her home in Srinagar, Kashmir.
Photo by Mukhtar Khan

A masked Kashmiri protester jumps on the bonnet of an armored vehicle of police as he throws stones at it during a protest in Srinagar, Kashmir.
Photo by Dar Yasin

Policemen guard as Kashmiri Muslims pray while the head priest, unseen, displays a relic of Islam's Prophet Muhammad at the Hazratbal shrine, on the occasion of the Prophet's birth anniversary in Srinagar, India. Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims thronged the Hazratbal shrine, which houses a relic believed to be a hair from the beard of Prophet Muhammad.
Photo by Mukhtar Khan

Paramilitary soldiers break motorbikes parked outside a college as they clash with students protesting against the alleged rape of a 3-year-old girl in Srinagar, Indian.
Photo by Dar Yasin

Kashmiri men dismantle a portion of a house destroyed in a gunbattle in Tral village, south of Srinagar, Kashmir. 
Photo by Dar Yasin

Kashmiri Muslim children attend recitation classes of the holy Quran on the first day of the fasting month of Ramadan in Srinagar, Kashmir. 
Photo by Mukhtar Khan


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