Congress slams 'politics of harassment, oppression' in PoK

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Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) President Tariq said the sympathies of the full   state  were with the radical   of PoK. File

Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) President Tariq said the sympathies of the full state were with the radical of PoK. File | Photo Credit: PTI

Amid the violent unrest successful Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), the Congress connected Saturday (October 4, 2025) said that PoK is an integral portion of India and slammed the "politics of harassment and oppression" being practised successful that region.

Speaking to reporters successful Anantnag successful southbound Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) president Tariq Karra said the sympathies of the full state were with the radical of PoK.

"Parliament has already passed a solution that PoK is simply a portion of India, and our sympathies, the sympathies of the full country, are with them. The radical are being handled determination successful an undemocratic manner. The Congress is against the authorities of harassment and oppression that is being practised there. They are an integral portion of J-K and our afloat sympathy is with them," Mr. Karra said.

At slightest 10 radical were killed and galore injured successful clashes betwixt protesters and information forces successful PoK successful the past fewer days. The protesters are demanding basal rights, justness and an extremity to what they described arsenic systemic oppression.

To different question, Mr. Karra said the enactment has ever supported the origin of the radical of Palestine. "Indira Gandhi was the idiosyncratic who championed the Palestinian cause. We person fixed full-fledged enactment to the radical of Palestine, and we volition proceed that," helium said.

Asked astir the woman of Ladakh activistic Sonam Wanghuk moving the Supreme Court against his detention nether the National Security Act, the JKPCC main said Wanchuk became the unfortunate of the "BJP's 'my mode oregon highway' mindset".

"Everyone has a close to attack immoderate forum. The Congress party's basal is clear. He is the aforesaid Wangchuk who the BJP had presented arsenic a nationalist astatine the clip of the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35-A. He was utilized by the BJP to hail the abrogation and to praise PM Narendra Modi. His (Wangchuk's) publication astatine the environmental, acquisition and societal level was hailed before, but helium is present being termed arsenic anti-national. He has go a unfortunate of the BJP's mindset of my mode oregon highway," Mr. Karra said.

The Congress person said the enactment volition rise the contented of the restoration of J&K's statehood successful the upcoming league of the J&K Assembly.

Published - October 04, 2025 05:42 p.m. IST

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