Overview

• Federal ministers and PPP leaders joined the Azad Kashmir prime minister in Muzaffarabad to meet the Awami Action Committee and push for a negotiated outcome.
• Government negotiators report roughly 90% of the committee’s demands were accepted in earlier 12-hour talks, while two unresolved items would require amendments to the AJK constitution.
• Authorities say cases registered against protesters will be withdrawn, and ministers urged restraint as they pledged to address issues including electricity and wheat supplies.
• Officials confirmed police casualties, with the AJK prime minister citing three officers killed and large numbers injured, while some reports also count civilian deaths and differing injury totals as figures continue to be verified.
• Police sources allege armed attackers opened fire on officers during the unrest, and a separate review meeting in Islamabad was scheduled to assess the situation.