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Youth in PoK forced to join terror groups, activists tell UN forum
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Political activists from Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir raised the issue of terrorism in the region and informed the United Nations that youth in PoK are forced to join banned extremist groups who take up arms training to carry out terror attacks.
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'Pakistan must vacate PoK': Activists raise slogans outside UNHRC in Genev
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Political activists from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) raised slogans against Islamabad to vacate Kashmir and allow them to live a peaceful life.
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Extremist, radical groups work hand-in-glove with Pak Army in PoK: Activis
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
A political activist from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir has informed the United Nations that extremist and radical groups in the region are often overlooked by security forces, even being facilitated into becoming political parties and register in the local election commission.
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UKPNP chairman urges UN to take note of human rights violations in PoK, Gi
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
United Kashmir People’s National Party (UKPNP) president, Sardar Shaukat Ali Kashmiri, urged the United Nations to take note of violations that have been taking place in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit Baltistan and ask Pakistan to uphold and guarantee all our fundamental human ri
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Local politicians demand change as rising prices, govt. apathy plague PoK
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Pakistan-occupied Kashmir has been grappling with the cascading effects of Islamabad's policies, leaving its residents in distress.
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PoK residents hold huge protests, declare no electricity bill payments unt
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets of PoK, united in their condemnation of what they perceive as highly inflated electricity bills that are putting undue financial strain on their households.
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Dogra Sadar Sabha calls out Indian govt to help people with “miserable lif
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
In the letter addressed to the Central President of DSS, Jammu, Thakur Gulchain Singh Charak, Raja stated that “The people of Pakistan-Occupied-Kashmir (PoK) — 99 per cent of whom are Dogras ethnically — are protesting on roads demanding for flour, electricity and other basic necessities of
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A fortnight on, internet still banned in Gilgit Baltistan
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Amid sectarian tensions between Shias and Sunnis in Pakistan-occupied Gilgit Baltistan, the local administration continues to suspend all internet services in the region causing inconvenience to the residents.
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Pakistan army hand in gloves with timber smugglers, alleges PoK residents
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
According to a new notification released by the administration, the locals are not allowed to extract wood from the forest covers in PoK.
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“PoK will merge with India on its own," says VK Singh
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
"PoK will merge with India on its own, wait for some time," the Union minister for State said while responding to a query in a press conference here in Dausa regarding demands of Shia Muslims in PoK seeking opening of border crossing with India.
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PoK suffers lack of potable water, electricity amid abundance of natural r
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
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.
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“Ask Modi to get us freed from Pakistan”: PoK residents appeal for India's
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
In the latest video he posted on social media, Choudhry disclosed that the people in PoK are grappling with high inflation, load shedding, food insecurity, and unreasonable tax imposition among several other concerns.
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