Contradictory Claims Exposed — Pakistan’s Field Marshal Asim Munir claimed Kashmir would join Pakistan “as per the free will” of its people, but ongoing protests in PoJK (Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir) against exploitation, lack of basic facilities, and military high-handedness have shattered this narrative.

Army’s Heavy-Handed Response — Instead of addressing grievances, the Pakistan army has used brute force, including live firing, to suppress peaceful protests in PoJK, revealing the hollowness of Islamabad’s “Azad Kashmir” propaganda.

Priorities Shift — Rather than focusing on “liberating” Indian Kashmir, Rawalpindi must now urgently address rising anti-Pakistan sentiment and instability in PoJK to prevent it from breaking away.

Speaking on the occasion of Kashmir Solidarity Day charade last year, Pakistan’s Chief of Defence Forces [CDF] Field Marshal Asim Munir tried to play Nostradamus by saying, “Without any doubt, Kashmir will be free one day and part of Pakistan as per the free will and destiny of the people of Kashmir.” Though the self-appointed Field Marshal’s pompous utterance was pregnant with contradictions, no one cared to point out the same-simply because it’s his wont to speak through his hat.

While addressing the Overseas Pakistani Convention a few months later, he haughtily declared that “Our stance is absolutely clear, it [J&K] was our jugular vein, it will be our jugular vein- we will not forget it.” Today, the Field Marshal who is heading Pakistan’s “hybrid regime” must be realising that instead of worrying about the ‘jugular vein’ called J&K that his army has failed to seize despite having waged war- not once but twice, the need to arrest burgeoning anti-Pakistan sentiments in Pakistan occupied Jammu and Kashmir [PoJK] is more critical.

Hence it must be indeed very embarrassing for a person who just a year ago waxed eloquent about Kashmiris joining Pakistan as per their “free will” to be using brute force including live firing to quell peaceful protests by residents of Pakistan occupied........

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