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India’s troubled region of Jammu and Kashmir saw a brisk turnout amid tight security as voters cast their ballots on Wednesday in the first regional legislative elections in a decade. The region, which has seen years of separatist violence and is at the centre of a dispute between India and Pakistan, has been under federal rule after the collapse of a coalition government in 2018. Elections are also being held for the first time since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party-led government revoked the erstwhile state’s partial autonomy in 2019 and divided it into two federally-adm…

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