Life during Kashmir lockdown: Check out the photos through the lens of 2020 Pulitzer-winning photographers

The story of the crackdown on Kashmir last August was difficult to show to the world. Check out those hard-hitting photos through the lens of 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning photographers.

The story of the crackdown on Kashmir last August was difficult to show to the world. Check out those hard-hitting photos through the lens of 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning photographers. (Photo | AP) 

A Kashmiri boy tries to take out a bullet from the wall of a damaged house after a gunbattle in Tral, south of Srinagar. (Photo | AP)

Kashmiri men dismantle a portion of a house destroyed in a gunbattle in Tral village, south of Srinagar. (Photo | AP)

An elderly Kashmiri man sits outside a closed market during a strike in Srinagar. (Photo | AP)

Paramilitary soldiers break motorbikes parked outside a college as they clash with students protesting against the alleged rape of a 3-year-old girl in Srinagar. (Photo | AP)

Kashmiri children attend recitation classes of the holy Quran on the first day of the fasting month of Ramadan in Srinagar. (Photo | AP)

A wounded woman is carried on a stretcher for treatment after she was injured in a bus accident, at a local hospital in Srinagar. (Photo | AP)

Kashmiri Muslim devotees offer prayer outside the shrine of Sufi saint Sheikh Syed Abdul Qadir Jeelani in Srinagar. (Photo | AP)

Kashmiri villagers grieve near the body of an 11-year-old boy, Aatif Mir, during his funeral procession in Hajin village, north of Srinagar. (Photo | AP)

Kashmiri men shout freedom slogans during a protest against New Delhi's tightened grip on the disputed region, after Friday prayers on the outskirts of Srinagar. (Photo | AP)

A Kashmiri man walks on a snow covered footbridge as it snows in the interiors of Dal Lake in Srinagar. (Photo | AP)

A paramilitary soldier stands guard as Kashmiri men offer Friday prayers on a street outside a local mosque during curfew like restrictions in Srinagar. (Photo | AP)

A deserted street is seen through barbwire set up as a blockade during curfew in Srinagar. (Photo | AP)

Flames and smoke billow from a residential building where militants are suspected to have taken refuge during a gun battle in Pulwama, south of Srinagar. (Photo | AP)

Women shout slogans as policemen fire teargas and live ammunition in the air to stop a protest march in Srinagar. (Photo | AP)

Six-year-old Muneefa Nazir, a Kashmiri girl whose right eye was hit by a marble ball shot allegedly by paramilitary soldiers on Aug. 12, stands outside her home in Srinagar. (Photo | AP)

A masked Kashmiri protester jumps on the bonnet of an armored vehicle of police as he throws stones at it during a protest in Srinagar. (Photo | AP)

Policemen guard as Kashmiri men pray while the head priest, unseen, displays a relic of Islam's Prophet Muhammad at the Hazratbal shrine, on the occasion of the Prophet's birth anniversary in Srinagar. (Photo | AP)

Masked Kashmiris shout slogans during a protest after Friday prayers on the outskirts of Srinagar. (Photo | AP)

A Border Security Force (BSF) soldier keeps vigil near the India Pakistan border at Garkhal in Akhnoor, about 35 kilometers (22 miles) west of Jammu. (Photo | AP)

A paramilitary soldier orders a Kashmiri to open his jacket before frisking him during curfew in Srinagar. (Photo | AP)