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Is India projecting ‘normalcy’ in Kashmir by holding G20 meeting?

A man paints a wall with the G20 logo in the region's main city of Srinagar [Tauseef Mustafa/AFP]

India is set to host a Group of 20 (G20) meeting in Indian-administered Kashmir, with residents and experts saying the controversial event is aimed at projecting “normalcy” in the disputed region.

The third G20 working group meeting on tourism will be held in the region from May 22 to 24 – the first global event there since August 5, 2019 when India’s right-wing government scrapped the special status of the country’s only Muslim-majority region.

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