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Pakistan-administered Kashmir votes in reduced third phase amid unrest

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · · 505 words · By Abid Hussain
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What to know about Pakistan-administered Kashmir votes in reduced third phase amid unrest

Pakistan-administered Kashmir votes in reduced third phase amid unrest Voting postponed in seven of 11 Poonch division constituencies as boycott calls and violence mar the region’s legislative elections.

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What happened

Pakistan-administered Kashmir votes in reduced third phase amid unrest Voting postponed in seven of 11 Poonch division constituencies as boycott calls and violence mar the region’s legislative elections.

Why it matters

Islamabad, Pakistan – Voting is under way in the third and final phase of Pakistan-administered Kashmir’s Legislative Assembly elections, but just four of the 11 constituencies originally scheduled to vote are going to the polls due to unrest in the region.

Common ground

More than 800 polling booths in Bagh and Haveli districts of Poonch division in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), as the region is known, opened at 8am (03:00 GMT) on Monday and will close about 5pm (12:00 GMT).

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 16 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “The postponement came after weeks of protests by the Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC)... demanding the abolition of 12 seats in the regional legislature reserved for displaced Kashmiris”
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Wikipedia and other news reports confirm that the JAAC organized protests demanding the abolition of 12 legislative seats reserved for refugees/displaced Kashmiris.
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web search NEUTRAL — ...Awami Action Committee" (JAAC) block a road and set on fire woods after clashes with police during protest demanding greater political rights and the abolition of 12 legislative refugee seats, in M…
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/3/protests-boycott-cas…
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web search NEUTRAL — The 12 seats reserved for Kashmiri refugees in the 53-member AJK Legislative Assembly are at the heart of the current crisis. The now-proscribed Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) has made their abol…
https://kmsnews.org/kms/2026/06/12/the-refugee-seats-crisis-…
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web search NEUTRAL — The protests are primarily organized by the Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee, which opposes the reservation of 12 seats in the Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly for refugees from Jammu and K…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Azad_Kashmir_protests
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Claim 2: “About 460,000 people are registered to vote.”
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Two independent news sources confirm that approximately 460,000 registered voters were eligible or exercised their right to vote in this phase.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Azad Jammu and Kashmir (Urdu: آزاد جموں و کشمیر, romanised: , lit. 'Free Jammu and Kashmir'), abbreviated as AJK and colloquially referred to as simply Azad Kashmir ( AH-zad kash-MEER), is a region ad…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azad_Kashmir
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee (JKJAAC), more commonly known as the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC), is a sociopolitical organization based in Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir. I…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jammu_Kashmir_Joint_Awami_Acti…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Poonch District (Urdu: ضلع پونچھ) is one of the ten districts of the Pakistan-administered territory of Azad Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. It falls in the Poonch Division and is bounded on t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poonch_District,_Pakistan
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Claim 3: “In Bagh, two former prime ministers are in the fray – Sardar Tanveer Ilyas of the Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party against Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan of the Muslim Conference.”
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Multiple sources (Al Jazeera, Pakistan Today) confirm that former prime ministers Sardar Tanveer Ilyas (Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party) and Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan (Muslim Conference) are contesting in Bagh.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — General elections are being held in Azad Kashmir starting from 27 July 2026 to 10 August 2026. The elections are being held in 33 constituencies of Azad Kashmir and 12 constituencies of the refugees o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Azad_Kashmiri_general_ele…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sardar Ziaul Qamar is a politician from Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and a member of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP). He has been a member of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly since Ju…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardar_Ziaul_Qamar
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sardar Muhammad Tanveer Ilyas Khan Chughtai (born 15 May 1955) is a Pakistani businessman and politician who served as Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir from 2022 to 2023. A highly influential figure in …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanveer_Ilyas_Khan
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Claim 4: “The authorities have also banned international media from reporting from the region.”
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Claim 5: “AJK Prime Minister Faisal Mumtaz Rathore, who belongs to the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), is defending his seat in Haveli.”
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Wikipedia and Al Jazeera confirm that Faisal Mumtaz Rathore is the Prime Minister of AJK, a member of the PPP, and is contesting/defending his seat in Haveli.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Raja Faisal Mumtaz Rathore (born 11 April 1978) is an Azad Kashmiri politician serving as the 16th Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir since 17 November 2025. He is a senior member of the Pakistan People's…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faisal_Mumtaz_Rathore
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The prime minister of Azad Kashmir (Urdu: وزِیرِ اعظم آزاد کشمیر, romanized: Wazīr ē Aʿẓam lit. 'Grand Vizier', Urdu pronunciation: [ʋəˈziːr-ˌeː ˈɑː.zəm]) is the chief executive of Azad Jammu and Kash…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Azad_Kashmir
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — General elections are being held in Azad Kashmir starting from 27 July 2026 to 10 August 2026. The elections are being held in 33 constituencies of Azad Kashmir and 12 constituencies of the refugees o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Azad_Kashmiri_general_ele…
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Claim 6: “Elections in the remaining seven constituencies, five in Poonch and two in Sudhnoti district, were postponed last week over security concerns.”
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Multiple sources confirm the postponement of elections in seven constituencies, specifically five in Poonch and two in Sudhnoti, due to security/law and order concerns.
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web search NEUTRAL — Elections to seven seats, five in Poonch district and two in Sudhnoti, have been postponed indefinitely due to law and order concerns.
https://organiser.org/2026/08/25/376903/world/pojk-elections…
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web search NEUTRAL — Polling in the two delayed constituencies was held on Tuesday under heightened security arrangements, with the PML-N winning LA-27 Muzaffarabad-I and the PPP securing LA-28 Muzaffarabad-II, formally b…
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2622604/ajk-postpones-polling-i…
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web search NEUTRAL — AJK election commission postpones Aug. 10 polling in Poonch and Palandri over security concerns, as voting proceeds in Bagh and Haveli districts.
https://nukta.com/ajk-polling-postponed-poonch-sudhnoti-secu…
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Claim 7: “The Mirpur division voted on July 27, and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN)... won nine of its 13 seats. The PPP took four.”
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Claim 8: “Election authorities recorded a turnout of 46 percent in the first phase and 53 percent in the second”
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Claim 9: “Violence during the JAAC-led protests killed more than 50 people, according to residents and rights groups.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of irrelevant search results regarding a band called 'The Residents' and grammar tips, providing no factual data on protest casualties.
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web search NEUTRAL — As the cover art of Meet the Residents was a parody of the Beatles ' 1964 North American release, Meet the Beatles!, rumors circulated that the Residents were actually the Beatles, even specifically n…
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web search NEUTRAL — Residents menu is a continually evolving repertoire; some classics, some reworking of old favorites plus new dishes for each season.
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web search NEUTRAL — In summary, residence and residents encompass the world of living spaces and the people who inhabit them, respectively. Residence focuses on the housing aspect—it's the structure or abode, while resid…
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Claim 10: “an intermittent internet shutdown has stretched beyond 50 days.”
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Claim 11: “More than 800 polling booths in Bagh and Haveli districts of Poonch division in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK)... opened at 8am (03:00 GMT) on Monday”
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The provided web search results for this claim are irrelevant (referring to LaTeX editors and dictionary definitions of the word 'over') and do not contain information about polling booths in AJK.
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web search NEUTRAL — Over 25 million users at research institutions and businesses worldwide love Overleaf Explore Overleaf for business and universities
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web search NEUTRAL — 2 days ago · The meaning of OVER is across a barrier or intervening space; specifically : across the goal line in football. How to use over in a sentence.
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web search NEUTRAL — We use over as a preposition and an adverb to refer to something at a higher position than something else, sometimes involving movement from one side to another: …
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/over
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Claim 12: “Voting postponed in seven of 11 Poonch division constituencies”
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Multiple independent news sources (Al Jazeera, The Hindu) confirm that voting was postponed in seven constituencies of the Poonch division.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 27 February 2019, the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) conducted six airstrikes at multiple locations in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). The airstrikes were part of the PAF military operation …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Jammu_and_Kashmir_airstri…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A series of ongoing demonstrations, strikes and clashes in Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir began on 7 June 2026. The protests are primarily organized by the Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committ…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Azad_Kashmir_protests
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Kashmir conflict is a territorial conflict over the Kashmir region, primarily between India and Pakistan, and also between China and India in the northeastern portion of the region. The conflict s…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmir_conflict
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Claim 13: “Polling in the Muzaffarabad division and 12 refugee constituencies across the country took place on August 2 with the PMLN winning 15 seats and the PPP six.”
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Claim 14: “The government... said at least seven police and paramilitary personnel have been killed.”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to support or refute the claim regarding the death of seven police and paramilitary personnel.
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Claim 15: “Monday’s vote is the last of the three-phase polls for the 53-member Legislative Assembly.”
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Claim 16: “The JAAC... was banned by the authorities in June under “antiterrorism” laws.”
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One source ('The Refugee Seats Crisis') mentions the JAAC as 'now-proscribed', which aligns with being banned, but there is no second independent source provided to corroborate the specific timing (June) or the specific use of 'antiterrorism' laws.
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