Election fever in Pakistan-administered Kashmir takes over UK
Election fever in Pakistan-administered Kashmir takes over UK
25th Jul 2021
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan-administered Kashmir/ LONDON (AA): Thousands of miles away from Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir or Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), the election fever has taken over Kashmiri diaspora living in the UK as well.
Over 3.2 million voters in AJK are going to elect the 53-member assembly for a five-year term on Sunday.
Supporters of candidates and political parties contesting elections in AJK are equally aggressive in their poll campaigns far away in the UK. The reason is that there is a provision of reserving a seat for the overseas Kashmiris.
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MUZAFFARABAD: As the campaign picks up in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) for the assembly polls, scheduled on Sunday, there are fewer women in the fray.
Although the region boasts comparatively a healthy sex ratio, out of a total of 700 candidates, just 20 women are contesting the polls.
Out of a total 4.04 million population, the region houses 2.06 million female and 1.98 million male population, as per figures available with the Planning and Development Department.
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SRINAGAR: A prominent politician in Occupied Kashmir who challenged India’s rule over the disputed region for decades died on Wednesday while in police custody. He was 78.
Mohammed Ashraf Sehrai was admitted to a government hospital with multiple ailments on Tuesday from a jail in the southern Jammu region, officials and his family said.
Sehrai’s son, Mujahid Sehrai, said his father was denied proper medical care while in jail. He said he spoke to his father 10 days ago and he complained of ill health.
“He told us several times in the last few months during his two phone calls a week to home that he was not getting proper medical treatment,” his son said. “We moved a court on April 16 with a petition seeking proper medical assistance for him but the court is yet to review it.”