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”.
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