NEW DELHI, June 10 -- Rawalakot spent the week burying its dead. Gilgit spent it counting disputed votes. Between those two facts sits the worst week Pakistan's portion of Kashmir has produced in years, and the easiest week India's diplomats have had in just as long.

At least 11 people were killed on Sunday in Rawalakot, in the Poonch district of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, when protests collided with a security crackdown two days before a planned rally, Al Jazeera reported. Sardar Waheed Khan, the sector's commissioner, said four police officers and a passer-by died from gunfire and that six protesters were killed in the response. More than 70 people were wounded. The government had, two days earlier, banned the movement behind the r...