Deadly clashes between police and protesters have left at least 11 people dead in Pakistan-administered Kashmir (a disputed Himalayan region divided between Pakistan and India since 1947), with further unrest reported as a banned civil society group, the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC), pressed ahead with a long march toward the regional capital, Muzaffarabad. The JAAC has been demonstrating against a rule reserving legislative seats for refugees from India-administered Kashmir, which protesters argue grants that community disproportionate political influence in the region. The government responded by ordering sedition proceedings against JAAC leaders, announcing bounties of Rs10 million for information leading to their arrest, and shutting down mobile internet services, prompting condemnation from Amnesty International and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, while the regional prime minister urged all sides to return to negotiations.