Pakistani security forces opened fire on protesters in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK), leaving one person killed and several others injured. The locals were staging protests over long-standing issues.
As per a TOI report citing Samaa TV, all business establishments and markets were closed as Kashmiri people had halted commercial activities in solidarity with the Joint Action Committee.
A large number of people took to the streets, raising slogans against the Anwar-led government. The protest was also supported by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) unit in PoJK. “Sara Mirpur has taken to the streets against her rights and this incompetent Anwar government,” PTI posted on X.
Last week, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh expressed confidence in India getting back control of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) without taking any aggressive steps, as the people in the region itself have been demanding freedom from the current administration.
“PoK will be ours on its own. Demands have started being made in PoK, you must have heard sloganeering,” the Minister said during his interaction with the Indian community in Morocco.
Singh added that he had repeated the same five years ago, while addressing an Indian Army program in Jammu and Kashmir.
“I was addressing the Indian Army at a program in Kashmir Valley five years ago, I had then said that we will not need to attack and capture PoK, it is anyway ours; PoK itself will say, ‘Main bhi Bharat Hoon’. That day will come,” the Defence Minister said.
The minister’s remarks come after it was alleged that the Central government had “missed the chance” to capture PoK during Operation Sindoor on May 7. Multiple leaders of various opposition parties criticised the Central government for agreeing to a ‘ceasefire’ despite India having the upper hand after Operation Sindoor downed multiple Pakistani jets, claiming that there was a chance to capture the Pakistani-occupied territory.
