Can Pakistan-administered Kashmir’s election overcome a violent summer?
Can Pakistan-administered Kashmir’s election overcome a violent summer? Muzaffarabad, Pakistan-administered Kashmir: The traffic crawled beneath densely...
Key points
- Can Pakistan-administered Kashmir’s election overcome a violent summer?
- Muzaffarabad, Pakistan-administered Kashmir: The traffic crawled beneath densely strung election bunting.
- Voting in Muzaffarabad and for 12 other seats reserved for refugees from Indian-administered Kashmir who now live elsewhere in Pakistan will be held on August 2, the region’s Chief Election Commissioner Justice (retired) Ghulam Mustafa Mughal told Al Jazeera, citing security concerns arising from the unrest as the reason for the changed schedule.
- “I have never joined them, I never participated in their protest,” a 60-year-old driver, bespectacled and bearded, said of the Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee (JKJAAC), commonly known as JAAC, the movement whose protests have dominated the politics of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, particularly Poonch division, in recent months.
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Can Pakistan-administered Kashmir’s election overcome a violent summer? Muzaffarabad, Pakistan-administered Kashmir: The traffic crawled beneath densely strung election bunting. Voting in Muzaffarabad and for 12 other seats reserved for refugees from Indian-administered Kashmir who now live elsewhere in Pakistan will be held on August 2, the region’s Chief Election Commissioner Justice (retired) Ghulam Mustafa Mughal told Al Jazeera, citing security concerns arising from the unrest as the reason for the changed schedule. “I have never joined them, I never participated in their protest,” a 60-year-old driver, bespectacled and bearded, said of the Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee (JKJAAC), commonly known as JAAC, the movement whose protests have dominated the politics of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, particularly Poonch division, in recent months. Right now the candidates on offer are all corrupt, and I will not be giving my vote.” An election amid unrest The Kashmir region, a scenic but disputed Himalayan territory, has been at the centre of multiple wars between Pakistan and India since both gained independence from British rule in 1947. How the region votes – or not –...