{"id":285,"date":"2025-03-13T00:06:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T00:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/2025\/03\/13\/pakistan-denounces-indian-ban-on-iiojk-bodies\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T00:06:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T00:06:54","slug":"pakistan-denounces-indian-ban-on-iiojk-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan denounces Indian ban on IIOJK bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Pakistan on Wednesday denounced the decision by India to declare the &#8216;Awami Action Committee&#8217; and &#8216;Jammu and Kashmir Ittihad-ul-Muslimeen&#8217; as &#8216;Unlawful Association&#8217; for five years.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Indian authorities had declared several political parties as &#8220;unlawful associations&#8221; as well, bringing the total of banned political parties to 14 in the occupied region. The decision was denounced by the FO at the time as well.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Awami Action Committee&#8217; is led by a prominent political and religious leader, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq. The &#8216;Jammu and Kashmir Ittihad-ul-Muslimeen&#8217; was also founded by another notable political and religious leader, Maulana Mohammad Abbas Ansari, who headed it till his demise in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The recent decision increases the total number of outlawed Kashmiri political parties and organizations to 16, Foreign Office spokesperson Shafqat Ali Khan said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Banning of different political parties and organizations is yet another manifestation of the Indian authorities&#8217; iron-fisted approach in the IIOJK. It reflects a desire to suppress the political activities and stifle dissent. It also shows sheer disregard of democratic norms and international human rights law,&#8221; he remarked.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson urged the Indian government to remove the curbs on the Kashmiri political parties; release all the political prisoners; and faithfully implement the UN Security Council resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan on Wednesday denounced the decision by India to declare the &#8216;Awami Action Committee&#8217; and &#8216;Jammu and Kashmir Ittihad-ul-Muslimeen&#8217; as &#8216;Unlawful Association&#8217; for five years. Last year, the Indian authorities had declared several political parties as &#8220;unlawful associations&#8221; as well, bringing the total of banned political parties to 14 in the occupied region. The decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}