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Most of JAAC's demands from Oct 2025 agreement fulfilled: minister

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Tariq Fazal Chaudhry maintained on Sunday that most of the Joint Awami Action Committee’s (JAAC) demands, agreed between the JAAC and the government last October, had been fulfilled.

“Thirty-five out of 38 demands have been implemented,” he said while addressing a press conference in Islamabad.

He maintained “negative propaganda was being spread that the government has only three out of 38 demands,” emphasising that the solution cannot be “violent demonstrations” and dialogue should be the way forward.

At this, the minister asked if the unrest was an attempt at “portraying Pakistan and AJK as separate entities; is it an attempt to weaken Pakistan’s relation with AJK; is it an attempt to draw parallels between the people of India-occupied Kashmir and AJK, and lastly, is this an attempt to weaken the Kashmir cause?”

He held that the government had not disregarded the JAAC’s demands; however, he pointed out that, “when we talk to them about resolving issues through dialogue, they respond with violent demonstrations; these are two contradictory approaches”.

“The clauses that are yet to be implemented, we can still sit down and talk about them,” he said, reiterating that the solution was not violence and taking law and order into one’s hands.

At the outset of the press conference, Chaudhry said that certain actors were attempting to create a situation of unrest ahead of the July 27 elections in AJK.

“Attempts are being made that the violent protests that have happened in the region in the past can be revived,” Chaudhry said, recalling the unrest in the region in September-October 2025.

He recalled that the JAAC was formed in September 2023 and at the time, they had three demands: subsidy on flour, decrease in electricity prices and reduction in elite privileges.

“As a result of that, we saw a shutter-down strike in 2024 in AJK, accompanied by violent demonstrations,” the minister recalled, stating that the government had fulfilled all the demands at the time.

He further stated that the demonstrations broke out again in September 2025 and a charter of demands was presented, listing 38 clauses, following which the government signed an agreement with the JAAC on October 4.

He added that he, along with the Minister for Kashmir Affairs, Gilgit-Baltistan, Amir Muqam, have been holding monthly meetings with JAAC to review progress on the agreement.

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