Children have joined ongoing protests in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK), highlighting growing public demands for basic rights, better living conditions, and access to essential services. Their participation has drawn attention to the social and economic challenges facing local communities, with demonstrators calling for justice, dignity, education, and greater opportunities through peaceful civic engagement.

The recent statement by Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif against protesters in Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir has once again exposed the widening gap between the rulers and the people living in the region. Instead of listening to public grievances and addressing economic hardships the authorities have chosen intimidation and repression. By calling the ongoing protests the "beginning of sedition" the minister has sent a clear message that dissent will not be toler

The blood spilled in Gilgit-Baltistan has transformed public anger into open resistance, as allegations of military brutality, enforced disappearances and sectarian repression fuel growing unrest across PoGB and POK. The killing of Shia children and youth during protests has intensified calls for justice, unity and self-determination against what many describe as systemic state oppression.

For decades, Pakistan has attempted to cloak its hostile designs on Jammu and Kashmir in the language of moral righteousness. Every few years, when its internal crises deepen or its global relevance wanes, Islamabad reaches for the same familiar script issuing resolutions, staging diplomatic theatrics and invoking hollow slogans of self-determination. Its latest move, the passage of a so-called plebiscite resolution in Pakistan’s National Assembly, fits squarely within this p

The term “Azad Jammu and Kashmir”, as Pakistan calls the territory it occupies, is a masterpiece of propaganda, a name that promises freedom while delivering subjugation. Far from being an independent entity, as the word “Azad” suggests, Azad Kashmir is a colony under Pakistan’s illegal and aggressive occupation and a stolen fragment of the erstwhile princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. Since 1947, Pakistan has maintained a facade of autonomy in this region, with puppet leade

Pakistan Occupied Kashmir a region that remains a focal point of longstanding tension between India and Pakistan, has been embroiled in a...