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Ahmer Khan is an award-winning and two-time Emmy-nominated independent multimedia journalist from Kashmir focusing on South Asia. He covers the region’s political and social conflict, humanitarian crises, human rights, religion, and migration. He has reported from India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, for media outlets including The Guardian, Vice News, The New York Times, Al Jazeera, RFI, CNN and more. His stories have been nominated for prestigious awards, including international Emmys in 2021 and 2022. He was awarded an Overseas Press Club Award, DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton, Edward R. Murrow Award, Human Rights Press Award, among other awards for reporting, producing, shooting, and editing. Khan is also a judge for the International Emmy Awards in 2023 and an Overseas Press Club of America member.
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The National Register of Citizens in the Indian state of Assam put 1.9 million people who consider themselves Indian citizens at risk of losing their nationality over claims that they or their ancestors moved to the country illegally.
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RamKaran Mishra is a Hindu priest who performs the last rites at the Ghazipur crematorium in east Delhi, on the frontline of India's Covid crisis. He's been cremating up to 150 bodies day after day, working long hours into the night. With no end in sight, and feeling abandoned by his government, Mishra must deal with traumatised families and an ever-present smell of burning bodies
Produced for Vice News
Indian nomads say Chinese forces have been stealing their land for years now, but the current border stand-off that turned fatal last month could have lasting implications for the global economy.
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The most expensive spice in the world comes from Kashmir — but political strife and climate change had made life harder for the farmers who cultivate it.
Produced for South China Morning Post
A massive vaccination drive is underway in India to protect as many people as possible from the coronavirus pandemic, which has crippled the country’s healthcare system and left millions infected and hundreds of thousands dead. Despite being a leading manufacturer of a Covid-19 vaccine, vaccinating its own population has proved challenging, not least because of the difficulties reaching remote areas, including in places such as Indian-administered Kashmir. Health teams must spend an entire day travelling by several modes of transportation to reach nomadic populations that are often wary of the government. But the medical workers who embark on these vaccination missions believe it's the only way India can win its fight against Covid-19.
Produced for The Guardian
Determined to prevent security forces from entering their community, people in the suburb of Anchar, in the disputed region of Kashmir, stand united in their desire to achieve freedom from India. Defying teargas and pellets, they are the last remaining pocket of resistance in the country's only Muslim-majority state
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