 Two sensitive districts in held Kashmir went to the polls on Saturday to elect municipal councillors, as some elected Kashmiris resigned after militants' threats. Voting in the two districts of Doda and Udhampur was slow with bad weather keeping most of the people indoors, election officer Deeraj Kumar told AFP from Doda. Four previous rounds of voting have also been incident-free although in the lead up to the vote militants had been bombing rallies and killing candidates, party workers and elected officials in an effort to scuttle the elections. Militants shot dead a frontrunner for the job of mayor of the summer capital Srinagar Wednesday, bringing to four the number of councillors and candidates killed in less than two weeks. |