In Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK), protests have intensified amid fears of Islamabad’s bid to seize direct control. Although the Pakistani authorities have made an offer for talks, the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) has not accepted it as they feel it is a futile exercise.
The JAAC says, holding talks has no meaning as the Pakistan establishment has never honoured its assurances. Experts tracking the developments say that the offer for talks is just an eyewash by Islamabad as it wants everything to be settled on its own terms. They say that the real intention of Islamabad is to take complete control over PoJK. It does not want a government in the region and instead wants to run the show from Islamabad.
Quoting sources, news agencies reported that for the Pakistani establishment, the ongoing protests are becoming too hard to handle. This time around, the situation is different since there is a global diaspora which has been protesting abroad, raising human rights violations and atrocities in PoJK.
