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Pakistan Opens Talks With AJK Protest Leaders After Deadly Clashes

A sweeping internet blackout continues across the region, highlighting eroded trust as accounts of the shootings remain contested.

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 met Joint Awami Action Committee representatives in Muzaffarabad on Thursday, with negotiations set to resume Friday, officials said.
  • The AJK government reports nine dead — six civilians and three police — and more than 150 police and about 50 civilians injured, as large funerals swelled turnout.
  • Authorities maintain that 90% of the protest movement’s 38-point charter has been accepted, while demands on refugee seats and cabinet size require constitutional changes that leaders dispute.
  • Mobile and internet services remain suspended across PoK/AJK, with shutter-downs continuing and caravans reported moving toward the regional capital.
  • Outrage followed a police raid on Islamabad’s National Press Club that injured journalists; the interior minister ordered an inquiry as media unions announced protests.