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Shops and markets remained closed successful antithetic parts of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir after a protestation telephone by the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC), arsenic implicit 20 radical person reportedly been killed successful caller constabulary enactment successful the region.
About 2,000 protestors associated with the JAAC launched a protestation march from Bhimber connected Tuesday (June 9, 2026_ and they would scope Mirpur for onward question to Muzaffarabad, BBC Urdu reported.
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It added that immoderate protesters would scope Rawalakot and past proceed to Muzaffarabad. Police and information forces unit are patrolling the roads and different areas.
JAAC has been staging protests demanding subsidised flour and electricity. The radical was outlawed connected Friday (June 5, 2026) by authorities, citing concerns implicit nationalist bid and security.
The streets successful Muzaffarabad were deserted, with hardly immoderate vehicles connected the roads, Dawn reported.
It added that riot constabulary and paramilitary unit remained deployed successful the city. However, nary protests were witnessed successful the city.
It reported that hundreds of radical had gathered successful the Quaid-i-Azam stadium of Mirpur, different large municipality of PoK.
“Shops are closed here, and postulation is disconnected the roads,” section writer Sajjad Jarral told Dawn by telephone.
The ineligible fraternity of PoK boycotted judicial proceedings connected the Bar Council’s telephone to protestation the alleged apprehension of elder lawyer Amjad Ali Khan, a halfway subordinate of the JAAC.
Pakistan's quality rights assemblage connected Monday (June 8, 2026) said that it was "deeply alarmed" by the ongoing unit successful PoK during convulsive clashes.
Authorities connected Tuesday (June 9, 2026) announced a reward for those who helped successful the apprehension of the cardinal leaders of the JAAC.
According to an authoritative notification, a “Rs 10 cardinal reward money” volition beryllium fixed to immoderate idiosyncratic who provides accusation starring to the palmy apprehension of the cardinal leaders of the JAAC, including Shaukat Nawaz Mir, Omar Nazir Kashmiri, Sardar Aman and Khawaja Mehran.
The notification states that the individuality of those who supply accusation that helps successful the apprehension of the wanted persons volition beryllium kept confidential.
Meanwhile, PoK's Prime Minister Faisal Mumtaz Rathore urged a instrumentality to the negotiating array to extremity the tensions that person gripped the portion implicit the past fewer days.
Mt. Rathore besides acknowledged that portion immoderate of the demands of protesters, peculiarly related to exile seats, necessitate cautious review, the solution indispensable travel done treatment alternatively than confrontation.
The JAAC has agelong been demanding the abolition of 12 "refugee seats" successful the alleged Legislative Assembly successful PoK. The seats are reserved for refugees from Kashmir who settled successful Pakistan aft 1947.
