India’s curb on separatist militancy and other forms of dissent pushes new candidates – and voters – to participate in local elections in Kashmir.

Indian-administered Kashmir was voting Tuesday in the third and final round of polls to elect its first government since the insurgency-wracked territory was brought under New Delhi's direct control.Hindu-nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government cancelled Kashmir's partial autonomy in 2019,

India-occupied Kashmir (IoK) was voting on Tuesday in the third and final round of polls to elect its first government since the insurgency-wracked territory was brought under New Delhi’s direct control.

A key resistance leader in Indian-controlled Kashmir says the regional polls to choose a local government will not resolve the decades-old conflict over the disputed region