Overview

• The Joint Awami Action Committee urged caravans to converge on Muzaffarabad on October 1, declaring a “siege” as strikes froze commerce and transport across key districts.
• News reports cited at least eight civilian deaths on Wednesday with 10 over three days, while Dunya News reported three policemen killed in separate gunfire during clashes.
• Authorities imposed an indefinite lockdown, cut mobile and internet services, erected roadblocks, and deployed additional police, Rangers and paramilitary units across the region.
• Protesters pushed shipping-container barricades off bridges while advancing toward the capital, and local reports described police personnel detained by crowds in Bagh.
• Sources also described shelling and aerial firing near Muzaffarabad’s Neelum Bridge with two deaths reported, as UK MPs urged Pakistan to restore communications and de-escalate.