Overview

• Large crowds continued moving toward Muzaffarabad on day five as strikes shut shops, transport and schools across multiple districts.
• The Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee leads the agitation over a 38‑point charter, with a central demand to end 12 assembly seats reserved for refugees.
• Authorities reinforced police and Rangers from Punjab and Islamabad, with reports of tear gas, live fire, road blockades and bridge clearances to halt the marches.
• A communications shutdown across mobile, internet and landlines has isolated families and hampered independent verification of events on the ground.
• Casualty accounts diverge, with India Today reporting at least 12 civilian deaths and over 200 injured alongside police fatalities, Geo/Hindustan Times citing three police deaths and dozens injured, and the government claiming 90% of demands are accepted as PoJK representatives raise the crackdown at the UNHRC.