As the protests in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) against the Pakistani government intensified, Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) leader Sardar Aman Kashmiri reiterated the group’s demand for an independent homeland during a public gathering.
Addressing supporters ahead of the group’s proposed march to Muzaffarabad, Aman Kashmiri said the movement would continue “by all means" and asserted that the group’s central demand was for “our own homeland".
“We want our own country. Everyone has the right to their own homeland, their own authority and their own government. Hand over our rights to us," he said.
The JAAC leader also claimed that members of the movement had been subjected to threats, including alleged bounties on their lives. “They try to scare us. They say a bounty has been placed on our heads and that they won’t spare us. We have come here carrying our lives on our palms," he said. The claims could not be independently verified.
Aman Kashmiri also criticized mainstream political leaders in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, accusing them of failing to represent the aspirations of the people. “Struggle was not written in your destiny; rather, bootlicking was written in your destiny," he said, alleging that local politicians had aligned themselves with Pakistan’s military establishment.
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