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A day after Prime Minsiter Shehbaz Sharif announced provision of grant for relief package against inflation, the Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) called off the ongoing protests in Pakistan-Administered Kashmir (PAK) on Tuesday. "The shutter-down strike is being called off [...] the government accepted all the demands of the protesters yesterday," a JAAC representative said while referring to the government's announcement of a Rs 1,100 per 40 kg reduction in wheat prices along with the provision of electricity at production cost in PAK.

LADAKH

With the INDIA Bloc falling apart not only in Jammu and Kashmir but also in Ladakh, the crisis has further deepened as political faultlines are intersecting with the regional faultlines that divide the cold desert region between the two districts – Buddhist-majority Leh and Muslim-majority Kargil.