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1. Article · Aug 31, 2026 · Luv Puri

   PoK’s newly-appointed Prime Minister and the Islamabad factor (opens the original)

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   In 2006, while I was staying in Muzaffarabad, a serving young Deputy Commissioner of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir came to visit me one evening. What took me by surprise was the candour with which he described the extent of Islamabad’s institutional domination over the everyday governance of PoK. Here, “Islamabad” is often used in the broader political sense to denote the power establishment comprising the Pakistani civilian political executive and the military establishment, whose interests a

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2. Article · Aug 14, 2026 · Luv Puri

   PoK: Beyond grievance, the politics of mobilisation (opens the original)

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   In 2006, while conducting fieldwork in Muzaffarabad in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake, I stayed with a local family after driving from Islamabad via Abbottabad, through a landscape of shattered houses and tent settlements. One morning, among the volunteers, I noticed a middle-aged man moving slowly on crutches. We eventually sat down together over tea, and I learnt that he had been attacked by activists associated with a rival student movement that would later become central to my u

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