PoK brides lose voting rights after bid to run in J&K polls

, who originally hails from Muzaffarabad in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK), is married to a local Kupwara resident. On counting day in December 22, 2020, the State Election Commissioner responded to a complaint that Ms. Sadaf and Shazia Begum, another similar PoK bride contesting the DDC poll from Hajin in Bandipora district, were not “bona fide India citizen(s)”, and stopped the