Violent clashes between security forces and demonstrators have left dozens dead in Rawalakot, a city in Pakistan-administered Kashmir (a disputed Himalayan territory governed separately from mainland Pakistan, home to around 4.5 million people), as protests over electricity prices, food costs, and basic rights enter their second month. The unrest is led by the Joint Awami Action Committee, a civilian advocacy group that says a previously signed agreement with the Pakistani and regional governments was never implemented; authorities have banned the group, labelling it a foreign-funded terrorist organisation, claims the JAAC rejects. Families spoken to by the BBC — the first international outlet to gain access to Rawalakot — described losing sons and brothers to live gunfire at protest sites, while a makeshift clinic has treated up to 60 critically injured patients, most of them young men, with protesters reportedly too afraid of arrest to seek care at main hospitals.