{"id":170754,"date":"2025-03-12T18:14:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=170754"},"modified":"2025-03-12T18:14:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:14:36","slug":"pakistan-condemns-indias-ban-on-socio-political-parties-in-iiojk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/03\/12\/pakistan-condemns-indias-ban-on-socio-political-parties-in-iiojk.html","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan condemns India&#8217;s ban on socio-political parties in IIOJK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-170755 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/03\/pakistan-flag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"486\" \/>Islamabad: Pakistan has strongly condemned the decision by Indian authorities to declare the Awami Action Committee and Jammu and Kashmir Ittihad-ul-Muslimeen illegal for five years.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, Foreign Office in a press statement emphasized that this ban is yet another example of India\u2019s harsh measures in IIOJK. &#8220;Banning political parties and organizations is a clear attempt to suppress political activities and stifle dissent in the territory,\u201d the statement read. It further condemned the Indian government&#8217;s disregard for democratic principles and international human rights laws.<\/p>\n<p>The statement urged the Government of India to lift the restrictions on Kashmiri political parties, release all political prisoners, and implement the UN Security Council resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, India had also declared several political parties as &#8220;unlawful associations,&#8221; bringing the total number of banned parties to 16 in the occupied territory. The Foreign Office had condemned that decision as well.<\/p>\n<p>It is pertinent to mention that Awami Action Committee is led by the prominent political and religious leader, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, while Jammu and Kashmir Ittihad-ul-Muslimeen was founded by another respected political and religious leader, Maulana Muhammad Abbas\u00a0Ansari.\u00a0KMS-11U<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Pakistan has strongly condemned the decision by Indian authorities to declare the Awami Action Committee and Jammu and Kashmir Ittihad-ul-Muslimeen illegal for five years. According to Kashmir Media Service, Foreign Office in a press statement emphasized that this ban is yet another example of India\u2019s harsh measures in IIOJK. &#8220;Banning political parties and organizations &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":170756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/03\/pakistan-flag-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170758,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170754\/revisions\/170758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}