Three police officers were killed and nine others injured in an attack by armed men belong to the Action Awami Committee in Dhir Kot, the cashmere, Express News said.
Armed men affiliated with the Awami action committee opened fires on police staff on Wednesday, which led to victims. The officers who were killed include gendarme Khurshid and the gendarme Jameel, both from Bagh, and the gendarme Tahir Rafi of Muzaffarabad.
The families of the police who died and injured demanded that the government reflect the assaults in justice and impose strict sanctions.
Meanwhile, AJK Prime Minister Chadhry Anwarul Haq invited the Awami Action Committee to undertake negotiations following violent protests in the region.
Speaking at a joint press conference in Islamabad alongside the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Tariq Fazal Chaudhry, the Prime Minister said that the Committee had initially announced a peaceful demonstration, but that the situation had intensified.
“In various regions of Azad Cashmere, rabid people made violent demonstrations and opened fires on police staff, which led to a killed of three police officers and ten other injured,” said Haq.
He noted that the participants in the demonstration came from several areas, adding: “If they were only people from the cashmere, the demonstration might not have become violent in this way.”
Haq reiterated his call to dialogue, declaring: “I invite the leaders of the Action Committee Awami again to manifest and engage in talks. The government will recognize the legitimate requirements of the demonstrators. ”
He added that in September, the government had already accepted 90% of the committee’s requests, but the committee has chosen to announce other demonstrations.
AJK hits constitutional requests
On Monday, a shutter and Wheel-Jam strike through the AJK, called by the Awami Jammu Cashmire action committee on constitutional requests kills one, life paralyzed in large districts before degenerating into violence after clashes in Neelum Bridge.
Led by the central chief of JKJAAC, Shaukat Nawaz Mir, the strike put Muzaffarabad, Mirpur, Poonch, Neelum, Bhimber and Palandari. The markets remained closed, the roads were blocked and the Internet services were limited in a large part of Muzaffarabad, with the exception of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa areas.
Fixed, cellular and private internet networks have also been largely suspended.
Tensions broke out when activists of the Muslim conference, organizing an “Aman march” parallel to the support of merchants wishing to keep the businesses open, confronted with JKJAAC demonstrators in Neelum Bridge.
Supporters of the Muslim conference, including the leader of the Raja Party Saqib Majeed and his brother, would have opened fire to the demonstrators.
“The incident, captured in viral images on social networks, clearly shows that people shoot the crowd,” said journalist Farhan Ahmed Khan. Four demonstrators were injured; One of them, Sudheer, died later in the hospital.
In the evening, nearly 5,000 people gathered in Lal Chowk, where Shaukat Nawaz Mir delivered a 17 -minute inflamed speech.
He condemned the dismissal, accused the authorities of trying to organize “another May 9” by their “touts” and insisted that JKJAAC has no hostility towards state institutions or the Pakistani army.
MIR announced that a demonstration would take place with the body of Sudheer in Chehlabandi on Neelum Road, demanding a tree and a post-mortem, which had not been completed.
He also called on other events to Lal Chowk on Tuesday afternoon. “The false sequences are broadcast to suggest that everything is normal,” he said, promising to continue protests until the requests are satisfied.
