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Final election phase begins in Pakistan-administered Kashmir despite banned group's boycott call
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Advertisement AdvertisementRana Sanaullah, a political affairs adviser to Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, predicted the PML-N would secure a two-thirds majority and form the next government in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
A PML-N victory would return the party to power in Pakistan-administered Kashmir after a decade.
The election campaign has been overshadowed by weeks of protests led by the JAAC, which has urged residents to boycott the vote.
The JAAC argues that the arrangement gives disproportionate political influence to people living outside Pakistan-administered Kashmir and has demanded the seats be abolished.
The seats were created to provide political representation to people displaced from Indian-controlled Kashmir who settled elsewhere in Pakistan because Pakistan-administered Kashmir lacked the capacity to accommodate them.