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, which frequently criticises Delhi’s handling of dissent in Indian-administered Kashmir but is now facing anger in the territory under ​its own control. The unrest began ahead of a June 9 strike called by ​the JAAC in protest against the reservation of 12 seats for refugees in ⁠the July 27 elections to the region’s 45-seat legislative assembly. The refugees live in Pakistan after ​being displaced from Indian-administered Kashmir. Protests had already grown in the days before the shutdown, with ​government officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, saying at least 20 civilians were killed between June 6 and June 14 and dozens more wounded.

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