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The News International (Pakistan) · Pakistan · Pakistan bans its own Kashmir protest movement as Rawalakot deaths fuel anger in Azad Kashmir
Pre-proscription analysis of the JKJAAC protest wave: the movement's demands are welfare-economic, subsidised electricity (Azad Kashmir provides hydro power to Pakistan but pays market tariff) and flour at administered prices; the political significance is that Azad Kashmir's civilian government has almost no fiscal autonomy, making the economic demands implicitly a challenge to Islamabad's control architecture.
“JKJAAC's demands are economic, but Azad Kashmir's fiscal dependency on Islamabad means 'cheaper electricity' is structurally a challenge to how Pakistan controls the territory.”