Thousands of Shia Muslims marched through Indian-administered Kashmir's largest city Thursday for a major religious procession, known as Ashura, permitted in the restive territory for the first time since a ban was imposed decades ago. The Islamic calendar is currently in the month of Muharram, the holiest time for Shias across the world when large processions mark the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson Hussein in the seventh century. But authorities in Kashmir had banned the traditional ceremony in 1990, the year after an armed revolt against Indian rule erupted in the disputed region that is also claimed by Pakistan. Since imposing direct rule on the terri
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