{"id":301898,"date":"2018-08-28T06:47:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T06:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301898"},"modified":"2019-09-07T08:13:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T08:13:28","slug":"pakistan-cracks-down-on-kashmiri-people-holding-anti-pak-protests-in-pok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pakistan-cracks-down-on-kashmiri-people-holding-anti-pak-protests-in-pok\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan cracks down on Kashmiri people holding anti-Pak protests in PoK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-301899 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Pok-300x180.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Pok-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Pok.png 522w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Dozens of people were severely injured in Kotli town of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) when police resort to baton-charge the demonstrators who were holding a peaceful rally demanding their due share of rights in the country. Kashmiri protestors have been claiming that they have been deprived of their basic rights under Islamabad\u2019s seven-decade misrule in the region. In order to disperse the protestors Police even lobbed tear gas shells during the protest rally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The anti-Pak protest is a result of an anti-establishment rage that has been mounting amongst the people of PoK against the autocratic authorities of Pakistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An array of protests has erupted across PoK over a step-motherly treatment meted out by Islamabad. While the security forces have been given a high handedness to deal with voices of dissent emerging in the region, local residents are still hopeful of a change in approach under the present leadership of newly-elected Prime Minister Imran Khan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A protestor reportedly said, &#8220;This is our tax money which is filling the coffers of the rulers. We have been trying to build a hospital for years. Prime Ministers, one after the other, have only made empty promises. We just want our rights.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;We don&#8217;t want our children to blame us like the way we do our ancestors. So, get up and move forward to claim your rights,&#8221; the protester added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of people were severely injured in Kotli town of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) when police resort to baton-charge the demonstrators who were holding a peaceful rally demanding their due share of rights in the country. Kashmiri protestors have been claiming that they have been deprived of their basic rights under Islamabad\u2019s seven-decade misrule in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":301899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[4438,4440,4439,4204,4437],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301900,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301898\/revisions\/301900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}