FILE- India's opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi waves to supporters during a campaign rally of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections in Jammu, India, Sept.25, 2024.(AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)

FILE- An elderly man smokes a hookah pipe as he sits with other men outside a polling station during the second phase of the assembly election in the interior of Dal Lake in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Sept. 25, 2024.(AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan, File)

FILE- Top Kashmiri separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq delivers his speech inside the Jamia Masjid or Grand Mosque in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Sept. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan, File)

FILE- Supporters assemble to welcome top Kashmiri separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, center, as he arrives to offer Friday prayers outside the Jamia Masjid or Grand Mosque in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Sept. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan, File)

People walk by monitors showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm in Tokyo, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

A man walks by monitors showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm in Tokyo, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

A woman looks at monitors showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm as she waits at an traffic intersection in Tokyo, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

A man stands by monitors showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm as he waits at a traffic intersection in Tokyo, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)