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Clashes in Pakistan-administered Kashmir ahead of a protest called for Tuesday killed 11 people and injured more than 70 as police and paramilitary forces sought to scatter a group of protesters from a banned alliance of civil society groups. Police said the protesters of the Joint Awami Action Committee, which seeks to uphold economic and political rights, had gathered outside a hospital morgue where the body of another group member was taken after his death in firing by police. “Four police officers and a passerby died after miscreants shot at them,” Sardar Waheed Khan, commissioner of the Poonch sector in the region, told Reuters, adding, “As the result of the law enforcers’ response, six protesters were killed.”For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app. Police Chief Liaqat Malik said 23 security officials and 50 protesters were among the injured in Sunday’s incident, with 30 offenders arrested in the
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