A FIGHT over assembly seats in Azad Jammu and Kashmir has laid bare what seem to be some deep resentments between the PPP and PML-N. Despite being ruling coalition partners in Islamabad, the two parties have engaged in a public war of words following the first phase of polling in AJK, completed on July 27. Rather startlingly, the PPP has openly accused the PML-N of using the administrative machinery to perpetrate electoral fraud in the Mirpur polls. Speaking at a workers’ convention in Muzaffarabad, PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari alleged that his party’s mandate was “stolen” through widespread administrative........

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