Anti-Militants Protests in Pakistani Kashmir

Zafar Iqbal

12 years ago

Categories: PoliticsWorld

Anti-Militants Protests in Pakistani Kashmir

Anti-militant protests rocked Pakistani Administrated Kashmir’s Neelum Valley when people came out on roads and demanded evacuation of activists of some banned militant outfits from their area.

Protesters declared the presence of few armed outsiders as a “threat for peace agreement between India and Pakistan on Kashmir borders.”

Eyewitnesses say that local markets were closed and transport system was affected by the call which was given by civil society organisations to voice against the appearance of some armed strangers. Agitators have asked government to free the area from armed insurgents within four days.

Complete version of this report is available at:

http://www.eurasiareview.com/04082012-anti-militant-protests-rock-kashmirs-neelum-valley/

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Zafar Iqbal: Zafar Iqbal is a freelance writer, campaigner and educator. He is architect of Press for Peace (http://www.pressforpeace.org.uk/), which works for the promotion of peace and sustainable development in South Asia, raising the voice of deprived communities and focusing gross root peace building and conflict resolution interventions in Himalayan State of Jammu and Kashmir. Being a campaigner he is a passionate and ardent supporter of change in his social and political milieu. As a freelance and independent writer, he contributes to various newspapers and online sources like Eurasia Review, Environmental News Service, Daily The Kashmir Monitor, Media Helping Media etc. He writes on political, environmental and geo-strategic dimensions of contemporary South Asia.