Kashmiri poet and journalist Ahmed Farhad Shah was abducted in Rawalpindi and is reportedly in police custody in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). The Pakistan government admitted this during a hearing at the Islamabad High Court (IHC) in Islamabad. The state of Pakistan has been projecting Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) negatively, and there are allegations of a lack of moral courage to admit the kidnapping, claiming AJK is foreign territory.
The Pakistan government’s rare and surprising admission came when the IHC was hearing the abduction case of local Kashmiri poet and journalist #AhmedFarhadShah #Pakistan #POK #IslamabadHighCourt https://t.co/EhqbMsdl8s https://t.co/a1ijbo1q2g
Kashmiri poet and journalist Ahmed Farhad Shah, abducted in Rawalpindi, is reportedly in police custody in PoK https://t.co/QvLYSqfLEE
Kashmiri poet and journalist #AhmedFarhadShah, abducted in Rawalpindi, is reportedly in police custody in PoK https://t.co/QvLYSqfLEE https://t.co/eNzLcZU1R3
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State of Pakistan projecting AJK in a very negative perspective. They kidnapped a poet from Islamabad. They don’t have moral courage to admit the kidnapping and now they showed his arrest in AJK and told IHC that AJK is foreign territory. Means they have the authority of an… https://t.co/UoHavyXyva