MUZAFFARABAD: A territory-wide shutdown in Pakistan-administered Kashmir has brought daily life to a standstill after the region’s deadliest unrest in years left at least 24 people dead in nearly two weeks of protests. The confrontation between local authorities and supporters of the recently banned Joint Awami Action Committee, or JAAC, poses a sensitive challenge for Islamabad, which frequently criticizes Delhi’s handling of dissent in Indian-administered Kashmir but is now facing anger in the territory under its own control.

Grievances over political representation will remain a powerful means of mobilizing opposition against the Pakistani state.

MUZAFFARABAD: A territory-wide shutdown in Pakistan-administered Kashmir has brought daily life to a standstill after the region’s deadliest unrest in years left at least 24…