Can Pakistan-administered Kashmir elections calm tensions?

The first phase of local elections in Pakistan-administered Kashmir is scheduled for Monday, July 27, amid calls for a boycott from the recently outlawed Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC), a grassroots alliance of civil society groups. The JAAC has been demanding the abolition of 12 seats in the regional assembly reserved for people displaced from India-administered Kashmir and living in Pakistan. It argues that only residents of Pakistan-administered Kashmir should be eligible to contest regional elections. The dispute escalated after the Supreme Court of Pakistan-administered Kashmir ruled that the refugee seats are constitutionally protected and cannot be abolished without a constitutional amendment. […]...

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