Kashmiri Refugees’ Constitutional Rights Are Not a Bargaining Chip for Populist Agitation

There are moments in political life when a demand presented as democratic reform is, upon careful examination, precisely its opposite. The Joint Awami Action Committee’s core demand to abolish the twelve reserved seats for Kashmiri refugees in the AJK Legislative Assembly is one such moment. Framed as a challenge to electoral privilege and administrative unfairness, […]