3 AP photojournalists win Feature Photography Pulitzer for Kashmir coverage

'I would just like to say thank you for standing by us always. It's an honour and a privilege beyond any we could have ever imagined,' Yasin said on Twitter

Photographers Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan and Channi Anand, based in Jammu and Kashmir, have been awarded this year’s prestigious Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. The Pulitzer citation said the award was for “striking images of life” by the photographers in what it called “the contested territory of Kashmir” in the aftermath of the August 5, 2019 revocation of its special constitutional status,  “executed through a communications blackout.”

Yasin and Khan are based in Srinagar while Anand is based in Jammu. All three work with the Associated Press, the news agency. AP executive editor Sally Buzbee said that the Kashmir prize