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Rawalakot Crackdown: Pakistan’s Killings in PoK and Kashmir’s Political Silence | AALIMI NATION
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Bullets for Bread: Pakistan’s War on Its Own Kashmiris, and the Silence Across the Line of Control

For five months, Pakistani forces have answered protests over flour prices, power bills and political rights with bans, blackouts and bullets. The killings in Rawalakot challenge Islamabad’s claim to speak for Kashmiris. They also put a hard question to Srinagar’s political class: if the people of Rawalakot are Kashmiris too, why has their grief been met mostly with silence?

By Tariq Bhat · 13 min read