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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Namita Singh

How an election in Pakistan-administered Kashmir descended into deadly violence

An election in Pakistan-administered Kashmir has resulted in deadly violence, an internet blackout, and allegations of a heavy-handed state crackdown, leaving the disputed Himalayan territory facing its most serious internal political crisis in years.

Voting in the semi-autonomous region has been split into three phases after weeks of unrest that claimed dozens of lives, with competing estimates of the death toll and sharply conflicting accounts from protesters and the authorities.

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