India, April 23 -- Leading English and Urdu language newspapers in Jammu and Kashmir printed their front pages in black to protest the terror attack that killed 26 innocent civilians in Pahalgam.

Publications including Greater Kashmir, Rising Kashmir, Kashmir Uzma, Aftab and Taimeel Irshad changed their formats to strike a symbolic message to the masses. The publications also carried powerful headlines in white or red as a powerful public display of solidarity and grief with those affected by the attack.

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Rising Kashmir's lead headline in white read, "TERROR STRIKES PAHALGAM," with a subhead, "27 civilians, mostly tourists, massacred in deadly terror attack." The letter "O" in the word "TERR...