Image copyrightAnsar Burney TrustImage captionIftikhar's parents disagree over whether he was adopted
A four-year-old boy has become the centre of a controversy between India and Pakistan - and between his father and mother.
Iftikhar Ahmad was in police custody, in a cell in Ganderbal town, near Srinagar, in India-administered Kashmir, for the last five days.
He hadn't been arrested - but his father, Gulzar Ahmad Tantray, had - and Iftikhar refused to leave without him.
Mr Tantray, who grew up in a village in Ganderbal, crossed over to Pakistan-administered Kashmir in 1990, allegedly for arms training at the peak of the insurgency against Indian rule.
He returned to India-administered Kashmir last Thursday along with Iftikhar, and was taken into police custody on Friday.
Mr Tantray was released on bail late on Tuesday, and he and Iftikhar left police custody.
However, Rohina Kayani, Iftikhar's mother in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, has accused her husband of kidnapping the child and running away to the Indian side.
Mr Tantray's family has denied the charges.
In fact, the two sides can't even agree whether Mr Tantray is Iftikhar's biological father or not.
The BBC's Geeta Pandey in Delhi explains the different sides of the story.
Mother Rohina Kayani's story
Rohina Kayani says she married Mr Tantray in 2002 and as the couple did not have any biological children, they adopted Iftikar in January 2012.
"I lost several members of my family during the devastating earthquake in 2005. Among the dead was my favourite brother, Iftikhar, so I named my baby after him," she told BBC Urdu's Aurangzeb Saifullah at her home in Muzaffarabad, in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
"The child brought immense joy to our lives," she said.
"On 12 March my husband took away the child saying he was going to attend a wedding in Haripur, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa [in Pakistan]. He said they would return in the evening."
However, he did not return, and by the next day, his phone was switched off. When a three-day frantic search yielded nothing, she called her husband's parents in Ganderbal.
"That's when I found out that he had arrived in the Kashmir Valley via Dubai. I have no idea when and how he arranged travel documents for himself and the child."
She has now lodged a complaint at the local police station in Muzaffarabad, accusing her husband of kidnapping their child.
"I think I'll never be able to see my child again," she says, tears rolling down her cheeks. "He was my only hope. Now he's been taken away from me."
Pakistan-based human rights activist Ansar Burney has written letters to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Indian high commission in Islamabad, urging them to restore Iftikhar to his mother as soon as possible.
"This is trafficking," he told the BBC. "If the child has a Pakistani passport, shouldn't he be brought back to Pakistan?
"The child's welfare is paramount. I think a mother is the mother, whether she gave birth to him or adopted him and nurtured him. He should be returned home as soon as possible."
The Tantray family defence
As Gulzar Ahmad Tantray has been in police custody for the past few days, BBC Hindi's Majid Jahangir met his father Mohd Maqbool Tantray at his home in Saloora village, Ganderbal district.
"How can a father kidnap his own child?" asked Tantray senior, adding that the charges against his son were "totally false".
"My grandson loves his father a lot so he came here with him," he said.
Image copyrightAurangzeb SaifullahImage captionGulzar Ahmad Tantray with his wife and child
Gulzar Ahmad Tantray is thought to have been among thousands of Kashmiri youths who began crossing over to the Pakistani side after 1988 to join militant training camps and fight for freedom from India.
Since November 2010, when the Indian government announced "a policy to allow for return of ex-militants to Jammu and Kashmir state", hundreds have returned home to the valley, many of them with families.
Mr Tantray's family denies that Iftikhar is adopted.
His brother, Zubair, told The Indian Express newspaper that Gulzar had two wives in Pakistan and Iftikhar is his child from the second wife who is now dead.
Rohina Kayani, he says, is the child's stepmother, and that is why his brother decided to bring the boy with him.
Police 'at a loss'
The controversy has highlighted just how separate India-administered Kashmir and Pakistan-administered Kashmir are.
The region has been a flashpoint between India and Pakistan since it was split in 1949 - and direct travel between the two sides is not possible.
What should police in Ganderbal have done with a four-year-old who refused to leave their custody and who reportedly refused to go with his father's family because he was not familiar with any of them?
The boy was not charged with any offence, officers told BBC Hindi's Majid Jahangir.
However, they were at a loss about what to do with him.
"How can we arrest a four-year-old boy. He is allowed to go anywhere. But he doesn't want to leave," the paper quoted police official Asif Iqbal as saying.
That problem was finally resolved when Mr Tantray was granted bail on Tuesday night.
Image copyright@zhangliblogImage captionActress Zhang Li was among many Chinese to post under the hashtag #A4waist
Chinese internet users have posted photos online to show they are "paper thin", sparking debate around the world about standards of beauty.
The social media craze has seen women hold up a piece of A4 paper vertically, to cover their waists.
Chinese state newspaper People's Daily described it as a "fitness challenge".
But people in China and elsewhere have responded with their own photos, arguing that a 21cm (8.3 inch) waist is unhealthy and unrealistic.
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The craze began on social networks such as Weibo and WeChat, with users such as actress Zhang Li posting photos, before going global on Twitter and Instagram.
Posting under the hashtags #A4waist and #A4waistchallenge, many internet users showed their disdain for the trend.
The Ministry of Public Security posted on its Weibo account that the distance between the mainland and the island of Taiwan, which the authorities view as part of China, was "just the size of a piece of A4 paper".
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The A4 waist challenge is not the first unusual online beauty craze emphasising thinness to emerge from China.
Media captionFamily and friends of Briton David Dixon have not heard from him since he left for work on Tuesday morning
Twin blasts hit the city's Zaventem airport at about 07:00 GMT on Tuesday. Another explosion at Maelbeek metro station near EU headquarters happened an hour later.
Two of the men who carried out suicide attacks have been named as the brothers Khalid and Brahim el-Bakraoui. IS has claimed it was behind the bombings.
Eleven people died at Brussels airport and 20 at the Maelbeek metro.
Of the injured Britons, three, all men, remain in hospital, while the fourth, a woman, has been discharged.
Mrs May said the government was concerned about Mr Dixon and consular staff were helping all British people affected.
Updating the House of Commons following the attacks, the home secretary said:
There have been 14 plots by IS - also known as Isis, Isil or Daesh - since the start of 2014
Seven plots have been foiled in the UK in the past year and more than 20 passports seized from British terror suspects to prevent them travelling to join IS
Following events in Brussels, the UK threat level remains at "severe", meaning an attack is highly likely
Security has been stepped up at ports, airports and railway stations, and more Border Force staff deployed to carry out checks on people and vehicles arriving in the UK
Mrs May said the decision to tighten security was not "in response to specific intelligence", but she said the UK must remain "vigilant".
"The police and security services will continue in their dedication to keeping people safe and the public should remain alert."
She continued: "Together with our allies around the world we must act with greater urgency and joint resolve than we have before."
Shadow home secretary Andy Burnham said: "This is the moment not for division but for maximum unity amongst peoples of all faiths and none."
He raised concerns about resources for UK Border Force, which he said had endured "years of cuts and is already stretched to the limit", and questioned whether police outside London had sufficient firearms capability.
Media captionBriton Pauline Graystone describes being in the airport when the bombs exploded
One British eyewitness described being caught up in the blasts.
Pauline Graystone cowered on the floor of the check-in area at Brussels airport with her husband and daughter.
"There was a huge bang just behind us. I said, 'What's that?' to my husband and he knew instantly it was a bomb so we just dropped.
"We were huddled there and suddenly there was another even bigger, louder bang that seemed even closer... then we really knew this was serious.
"We could smell burning and lots of the ceiling was falling down. It was just total confusion so we just stayed put and didn't move and hoped there wasn't going to be a third bomb."
Zaventem airport will remain closed until at least Friday and flights between there and the UK are disrupted. Passengers are being advised to contact their travel operator.
Eurostar services are operating normally on Wednesday, but passengers are being advised to check.
The Port of Dover says security checks have remained heightened since November's attacks in Paris, with customers urged to leave extra time before travelling
An emergency number for those worried a relative may have been affected has also been issued - 020 7008 0000.
Image copyrightUnescoImage captionThe UN cultural agency, Unesco, has condemned the destruction of Palmyra as a war crime
Syrian government forces are reported to have reached the outskirts of the ancient city of Palmyra, after driving back Islamic State (IS) militants.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that troops were now only 2km (1.2 miles) south of the Unesco World Heritage-listed ruins.
IS militants seized the site and the adjoining modern town in May.
They subsequently destroyed two 2,000-year-old temples, an arch and funerary towers, drawing global outrage.
IS, which has also demolished several world-renowned pre-Islamic sites in neighbouring Iraq, believes that such structures are idolatrous.
The UN cultural agency, Unesco, has condemned the destruction as a war crime.
'Continuous progress'
The Syrian Observatory, which relies on a network of sources on the ground in Syria, told the AFP news agency that government forces were on Wednesday only 2km from Palmyra's southern outskirts and 5km from its western edge.
The governor of Homs province, Talal Barazi, confirmed the advance and said troops were now stationed on several hills overlooking the Greco-Roman ruins.
"There is continuous progress by the army from all directions," he was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.
Mr Barazi added that he expected "positive results" over the next few days.
Syrian government forces launched an offensive to retake Palmyra at the start of the month, backed by heavy Russian air strikes.
Last week, the Russian military said its aircraft were flying up to 25 sorties a day over Palmyra to help liberate what President Vladimir Putin has described as a "pearl of world civilisation".
Palmyra is also situated in a strategically important area on the road between the capital, Damascus, and the contested eastern city of Deir al-Zour.
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