The legislative assembly in Indian-administered Kashmir has passed a resolution demanding the restoration of partial autonomy.
The resolution comes a month after the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC) won a regional election last month with promises to return self-rule to the disputed Muslim-majority territory.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government cancelled Jammu and Kashmir’s special status in 2019, and the territory has been ruled by a governor appointed by New Delhi since.
Kashmir has been divided between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan since their partition at the end of British rule in 1947, and both countries claim full ownership of the territory.
Tens of thousands of civilians, soldiers and rebels have been killed in the territory during decades of unrest that shows no sign of stopping.
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