The flames raging across Pakistan occupied Jammu & Kashmir have illuminated what decades of diplomacy and propaganda sought to obscure that Pakistan’s self-proclaimed guardianship of Kashmir stands on the ashes of deceit. The uprising led by the Jammu Kashmir Awami Action Committee is not an isolated incident but the culmination of decades of political disenfranchisement, resource exploitation and military control masquerading as autonomy.
For years, Islamabad sold the illusion of “Azad Kashmir” to the world while treating it as a colonial dependency. The facade has now fallen. As police bullets pierce the streets of Muzaffarabad and Dadyal, the myth of Pakistan’s moral authority on Kashmir lies dismembered.
The Pakistani Army, long the invisible hand scripting politics in POJK, finds itself exposed before the very people it claimed to protect. The rebellion in POJK marks a decisive moral reversal in the Kashmir discourse. While Pakistan’s propaganda machinery continues to sermonise about rights in our part of Jammu and Kashmir, its own citizens rise against hunger, humiliation and denial.
The contrast is unmissable that Srinagar debates governance, Muzaffarabad bleeds for survival. This revolt is not merely regional; it is ideological. It signals the crumbling of Pakistan’s internal peripheries and the bankruptcy of its Kashmir narrative. In trying to monopolize the voice of Kashmir, Islamabad has lost the trust of Kashmiris under its own flag. The fire it once stoked across borders now burns within a blaze that no curfew can contain.
