One of the central demands of the students was the fulfilment of a promise made by Pakistan back in 1962, which was to provide free electricity to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
Working as health workers under the Maternal Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH) Programme these women are surviving on merely a monthly remuneration of 8,000 Pakistani Rupees.
People from all walks of life in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (POK) took to the streets in a region-wide protest against a range of issues they have been grappling with for an extended period.
Shops in Muzaffarabad, Mirpur, Rawalakot, Kotli and other major cities remained shut and trades and locals carried out protest marches with slogans against the Pakistan government.
Despite PoK's abundant natural resources and the generation of ample electricity, its citizens find themselves dependent on Pakistan to meet their basic energy needs.
Amid the ongoing protest sit-ins, the civil society activists in Muzaffarabad city in Pakistani-occupied Kashmir (PoK)
threw electricity bills into the river and appealed people to the people that they should not pay their electricity bills, Dawn reported.
Residents blame government departments serving under Pakistan’s illegal regime in the region for host of issues such as load shedding, unavailability of safe drinking water and heavy taxation on wheat flour among several other concerns.
Amid the ongoing protests in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) over high inflation and inflated electricity bills, a prominent political activist in Muzaffarabad said the region is heading towards a bloody revolution.
Massive anti-government protests are being held in Muzaffarabad city of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) to raise the issue of high inflation and corruption by the politicians.
August 14 can never be celebrated as a great day. It was, and remains to this day, a day that was marked with communal hate and bloodshed. The two-nation theory of Muhammad Ali Jinnah continues to this day to poison the minds of millions of people in the Indian sub-continent, especially in t