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.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said the final resolution of the Kashmir issue will come when the "stolen part" under illegal Pakistani occupation is returned to India.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said Jammu and Kashmir is incomplete without the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and lashed out at the Prime Minister of PoK, Chaudhry Anwarul Haq who recently called for “jihad” against India.
The BJP candidate from the Hyderabad Lok Sabha constituency said this while speaking at a national discussion organised in Kashi on the return of PoK to India.
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Shah said that despite hurdles from the Opposition, Modi removed article 370 and integrated Kashmir into the rest of India.
