[Tral, Kashmir; September 28. Image via Getty]

Kashmiri women grieve during the funeral of 65 year old Taja at Tral, some 40kms south of Srinagar on September 28, 2009. Three Islamic militants and a female bystander were killed during a fierce gunbattle with soldiers in Indian-ruled Kashmir, police said. Fighting broke out near Tral town, south of the regional capital of Srinagar, when Indian troops raided a suspected militant hideout.A woman was killed in the crossfire,' a police spokesman said, adding that three troopers were injured. Muslim rebels have been waging an insurgency since 1989 against India's rule of the region in a conflict that has left more than 47,000 people dead.official count.Seperatists put the toll twice as high. AFP PHOTO/Tauseef MUSTAFA (Photo credit should read TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP/Getty Images)

[Srinagar, September 24. Image via Getty]

A Kashmiri woman carries crops on the outskirts of Srinagar on September 24, 2009. Agriculture and horticulture are the main sources of income for Kashmiris since tourism, once the second major source of income, declined following the Kashmiri separatist movement's uprising in 1989. AFP PHOTO/Tauseef MUSTAFA (Photo credit should read TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP/Getty Images)

[Shopian, Kashmir; September 9. Image via Getty]

Kashmiris weep at the funeral of Mohammed Hussain Zargar in Shopian, south of Srinagar, on September 9, 2009. Thousands of mourners and protesters gathered in the restive Muslim-dominated region's Shopian town after the death of an outspoken protester of the rape and murder of two young women in Kashmir in May which was blamed on Indian security personnel. The body of Zargar, 42, a property dealer, was discovered in an orchard late September 8, three days after he went missing. AFP PHOTO/Tauseef MUSTAFA (Photo credit should read TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP/Getty Images)

[Srinagar, Kashmir; July 8. Image via Getty]

A Kashmiri Muslim girl weeps during the funeral of Muslim youth Assrar Mushtaq in Srinagar on July 8, 2009. Protesters in Indian Kashmir set fire to a police van and stoned other security vehicles after the body of a missing young man was recovered in the regional capital Srinagar. Residents alleged that Asrar Mushtaq, 20, had 'disappeared' while in police custody. Police denied having detained Mushtaq, who went missing last week. After his body was found, angry protesters poured onto the streets of Srinagar and attacked vehicles belonging to the security forces. AFP PHOTO/Tauseef MUSTAFA (Photo credit should read TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP/Getty Images)

[Srinagar, Kashmir; June 30. Image via Getty]

SRINAGAR, KASHMIR - JUNE 30: Shameema 25, and her daughter holds a picture of her missing husband Shabir Ahmad Gassias inside their house on June 30, 2009 in Srinagar in the Indian Administered Kashmir. Shameema mother of two says her husband Shabir Ahmad Gassi a labourer was arrested by Indian soldiers on 22 January, 2000 during a nocturnal raid, just 15 days after she had given birth to a daughter. She still recalls how helpless she felt when her husband screamed, while the Indian Army soldiers interrogated him just outside the house. Kashmir is the most heavily militarized zone in the world. Around seven hundred thousand Indian soldiers are battling with Pakistani trained Kashmiri militants since 1989. The conflict has toll around the deaths of eighty thousand people and eight thousand disappearances. (Photo by Yawar Nazir/Getty Images)

[Shopian, Kashmir; June 24. Image via Getty]

A Kashmiri woman takes part in a protest rally headed by Kashmir's chief cleric and All Parties Hurriyat Confrence (APHC) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in Shopian, south of Srinagar on June 24, 2009. Thousands of people in Indian-ruled Kashmir defied a ban on protest marches June 24 with a fresh demonstration over the alleged rapes and murders of two young Muslim women by Indian troops. The death of a 17-year-old girl and her 22-year-old sister-in-law has sparked widespread anti-India demonstrations in the disputed Muslim-majority Kashmir Valley since their bodies were found in a stream on May 30 and forensic tests revealed they had been raped. AFP PHOTO/Tauseef MUSTAFA (Photo credit should read TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP/Getty Images)

[Kashmir, June 21. Image via Getty]

A Kashmiri Muslim woman carries firewood as unseen Hindu pilgrims begin their journey from Baltal Base Camp to Srinagar's Amarnath Cave Shrine at 12,729 ft (3,880 m) altitude on June 21, 2009. The annual pilgrimage began on June 15 and so far nearly 50,000 people have visited the place of worship, where a large icicle is revered as an incarnation of Lord Shiva, tucked away in the mountains of predominantly Muslim Kashmir. AFP PHOTO/Tauseef MUSTAFA (Photo credit should read TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP/Getty Images)

[Srinagar, Kashmir; June 10. Image via Getty]

Kashmiri college girls confront Indian police who charged at them with batons during a protest over the alleged rape and murder of two Muslim women in Srinagar June 10, 2009. Residents say the two women, aged 17 and 22, were abducted, raped and killed by security forces May 29 in Shopian town, south of Srinagar, after their bodies were found in a stream. Indian officials initially insisted they had drowned but are now treating the deaths as rape-related after forensic experts found traces of semen on the bodies. AFP PHOTO/TAUSEEF MUSTAFA (Photo credit should read TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP/Getty Images)

[Srinagar, Kashmir; June 5. Image via Getty]

A Kashmiri family watches from an upper story window during a clash between protestors and Indian police in Srinagar on June 5, 2009. Thousands of Muslims defied a protest ban to demonstrate in the Kashmiri summer capital Srinagar over the killing of two women that locals have blamed on Indian security forces. The demonstrations, during which protestors chanted anti-India slogans, were held outside several Srinagar mosques following Friday prayers. Police said they were probing the deaths of the 17-year-old woman and her 22-year-old sister-in-law, whose bodies were found in a shallow stream on May 30. AFP PHOTO/Tauseef MUSTAFA (Photo credit should read TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP/Getty Images)

[Srinagar, Indian Kashmir; May 6. Image via Getty]

Kashmiri girls look on as unseen Indian policemen defuse a roadside bomb in Srinagar on May 6, 2009. A strike has been called by Muslim separatists to shore up their boycott of national elections shut down parts of Indian Kashmir on the eve of voting in the volatile Kashmir valley. India is holding its fifteenth parliamentary general elections in five phases on April 16, April 23, April 30, May 7 and May 13 and the new parliament will be constituted before June 2. Separatists oppose the holding of elections in Kashmir, arguing that they will not resolve the future of the disputed territory, held in part by India and Pakistan but claimed in full by both. AFP PHOTO/Tauseef MUSTAFA (Photo credit should read TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP/Getty Images)