Political party flags concerns over prolonged power cuts, internet blackouts in PoK
The party expressed solidarity with the people amid a shutter-down strike in the Rawalakot region of Poonch district in PoK.
The party expressed solidarity with the people amid a shutter-down strike in the Rawalakot region of Poonch district in PoK.
Reports from multiple districts of Balochistan suggest an alarming continuation of enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrests, and the discovery of unidentified bodies, further intensifying the province's long-standing human rights crisis.
Pakistan faced two major protests in recent days. The first was in POK where the public rose in anger against rising costs, exploitation of resources and lack of basic amenities. Protests lasted two weeks, and were brutally crushed with over a dozen (officially reported) killed. Actual figures could be far higher.
The recent protests in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir are the result of anger built up over the years due to forced suppression by the state.
Incidents of violence occurred in Dhir Kot and other parts of PoK. The local authorities said 172 police personnel and 50 civilians were injured in the clashes.
India has exercised its right to respond to dastardly acts of terror emanating from the neighbouring nation, the government said on Wednesday, hours after Indian armed forces destroyed terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
The United Nations (UN) Field Station in the border town of Poonch was targeted with artillery shelling by Pakistan troops on Wednesday morning.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge also expressed deep appreciation for the Indian Armed Forces following the successful execution of Operation Sindoor.
Domestic carriers on Wednesday cancelled or delayed several flights to and from Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan, and Himachal Pradesh after the Indian Army successfully executed ‘Operation Sindoor’, hitting nine high-value terror targets deep inside Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
Three civilians were killed in heavy artillery shelling by Pakistan Army from across the Line of Control (LOC) and the International Border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir, sources in the Indian Army said on Wednesday.
