FILE - An Indian national flag, left, flies next to a Jammu and Kashmir state flag on the Civil Secretariat building, in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir Aug. 9, 2019. On Aug. 5, 2019, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government passed legislation in Parliament that stripped Jammu and Kashmir's statehood, scrapped its separate constitution and removed inherited protections on land and jobs. While deeply unpopular in Muslim-majority Kashmir, Modi was cheered by supporters for fulfilling a long-held Hindu nationalist pledge to scrap the restive region's special privileges and assimilate Kashmir into the rest of the country. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin, File)