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Pakistan Dispatches High-Level Team to PoJK for Talks as Unrest Persists

Negotiations are underway under a communications blackout, with disputed deaths drawing scrutiny from India alongside rights groups.

Members of Awami Action Committee chant slogans as they attend the funeral prayers of three victims, who were killed in Wednesday's clashes between police and protestors, in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani controlled Kashmir, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/M.D. Mughal)
People sit around the bodies of three victims, who were killed in Wednesday's clashes between police and protestors, before their funeral prayers, in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani controlled Kashmir, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/M.D. Mughal)
People transport the body of a person, who was killed in the clashes between police and demonstrators demanding subsidies on food, cheaper electricity and other concession, at a hospital in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/M.D. Mughal)
People chant slogans in support of the Kashmiri people as they gather to condemn the killings following a shutter-down strike in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, during a protest in Karachi, Pakistan October 2, 2025.

Overview

  • An eight-member federal delegation sent by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif held a first round of talks in Muzaffarabad on Thursday, with negotiations expected to continue on Friday.
  • Authorities report six civilians and three police officers killed since the protests began, while organisers claim higher tolls and accuse security forces of using live fire.
  • Mobile and internet services remain suspended across the region as a shutter-down and wheel-jam strike continues, and large funerals have drawn thousands.
  • The Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee is pressing a 38-point charter that includes abolishing 12 reserved assembly seats and ending elite privileges; officials say most demands are accepted in principle but some require constitutional changes.
  • India’s foreign ministry condemned reports of brutality and called for Pakistan to be held accountable, and Amnesty International urged an immediate, impartial investigation into the clashes and the blackout.