7 months ago
3
A high-level authorities delegation connected Friday (October 3, 2025) held the 2nd circular of talks with the protestation leaders successful Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) successful an effort to person them to extremity the demonstrations that person claimed astatine slightest 9 lives and injured hundreds.
Violence broke retired successful the portion pursuing the telephone for a onslaught connected September 29, forcing Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to nonstop a Group of Ministers and different leaders to Muzaffarabad to find a negotiated solution to their grievances.
At slightest six civilians and 3 constabulary unit person been killed during the ongoing demonstrations successful the region. Nearly 172 constabulary unit and astir 50 civilians sustained injuries during the demonstrations.
The delegation led by erstwhile premier Raja Pervaiz Ashraf held the archetypal circular of talks with the representatives of the Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee (JKJAAC), representing traders, section leaders and civilian nine activists from the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Tariq Fazal Chaudhry said that a 2nd circular of negotiations was held successful Muzaffarabad.
“We afloat enactment the rights of the radical of Kashmir,” helium said, maintaining that astir of their demands, which were successful the nationalist interest, had already been accepted. “Constitutional amendments are required to fulfil the remaining fewer demands and talks are ongoing regarding that.” He said determination was nary country for violence.
“We judge that unit is not the solution to immoderate problem. We anticipation that the Action Committee volition resoluteness each issues done peaceful dialogue,” the Minister said.
Meanwhile, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has said it is “deeply alarmed by the ongoing violence" successful PoK, wherever astatine slightest 9 people, including 3 constabulary officers, person mislaid their lives and hundreds person been injured during protests.
“We powerfully condemn the usage of excessive unit and the deaths of civilians and instrumentality enforcers alike, arsenic good arsenic connection blackouts,” the HRCP posted connected X.
It said that portion “dialogue is essential, it cannot beryllium meaningful amid the continued governmental disenfranchisement of the region’s people. The close to peaceful protestation indispensable beryllium upheld and grievances addressed transparently”.
