Thursday May 21, Our World In Pictures
INDIA — Woman Leads Herd: An elderly Kashmiri Bakarwal woman leads a herd of horse near Peer Ki Gali, 50 miles south of Srinagar on Wednesday. Bakarwals are nomadic herders of India’s Jammu-Kashmir state who wander in search of good pastures for their cattle. Every year in April and May, more than 100,000 people from the nomadic Bakarwal tribes arrive in the meadows of Kashmir and parts of Ladakh from areas of the Jammu region with their flocks of cattle and sheep.
GAZA CITY — Palestinian Forces Demonstrate Military Skills: Palestinian Hamas security forces display their military skills during a police academy graduation ceremony on Thursday.