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A British parliamentary radical has raised concerns implicit reports of connection disruptions, arrests and “escalating tensions” successful Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and sought clarification from the British authorities connected its appraisal of the situation.
India maintains that Pakistan has been successful amerciable possession of Indian territory successful the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
New Delhi asserts that the full Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are integral and inalienable parts of India by virtuousness of the “complete, ineligible and irrevocable accession” of Jammu and Kashmir to India successful 1947.
In a missive sent to the U.K. Foreign Office connected Saturday (June 6, 2026), Bradford East MP Imran Hussain, who is besides the seat of the All-Party Parliamentary Group connected Kashmir, cited caller reports from the portion of a “communications blackout, arsenic portion of a broader lockdown, alongside escalating tensions, and restrictions affecting the quality of radical successful the portion to pass with the extracurricular world”.
The letter, signed by astir 30 MPs, urged the British authorities to “engage proactively and usage each due diplomatic channels to promote de-escalation and a peaceful resolution” successful the region.
Earlier connected Saturday (June 6), authorities successful Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) arrested dozens of radical pursuing the banning of the Joint Action Awami Committee (JAAC) – a section radical progressive successful convulsive protests, which led to deaths and injuries past year.
The radical was outlawed connected Friday (June 5) by authorities, citing concerns implicit nationalist bid and security.
The JAAC is seeking the implementation of a 38-point docket that includes subsidised flour and electricity, and the abolition of 12 seats reserved successful the determination legislative assembly for Kashmiris.
The parliamentary radical wrote successful its missive that, “We are besides acrophobic by reports of arrests, including those of British nationals, restrictions connected communications, and a breakdown successful dialog betwixt the authorities and representatives of the Joint Awami Action Committee.”
“While we recognise that reports from rapidly processing situations tin vary, immoderate restrictions connected communications successful a delicate and politically tense situation hazard expanding uncertainty, undermining confidence, and exacerbating tensions,” it further said.
The parliamentary radical said that negotiations had stalled pursuing disputes implicit what it described arsenic longstanding civic, governance and basal quality rights concerns.
It has called for “peaceful dialogue, restraint, and meaningful engagement with those raising concerns”, adding that rights to peaceful assembly, state of expression, and entree to communications are “important principles that assistance support stableness and nationalist confidence, peculiarly astatine times of heightened tension”.
The radical has besides sought clarification from the U.K. Government connected its appraisal of the concern successful the region, the steps being taken to enactment British nationals and their families there, and the steps it is taking to show developments and enactment efforts aimed astatine preventing further escalation successful the region.
