Pakistani Kashmir faces shutdown as protests leave more than 20 dead (opens in new tab)

A territory-wide shutdown in Pakistan-administered Kashmir has brought daily life to a standstill after the region’s deadliest unrest in years left at least 24 people ​dead in nearly two weeks of protests. The confrontation between local authorities and ‌supporters of the recently banned Joint Awami Action Committee, or JAAC, poses a sensitive challenge for Islamabad, […] The post appeared first on <a href="