On December 5, JAAC declares a shutter-down strike in AJK.

According to specifics, the AJK government’s ordinance, which the JAAC feels limits democratic freedoms, mandates administrative consent for any protest.

The JAAC is demanding the repeal of the Presidential Ordinance and the implementation of its Charter of Demands in response to the recent arrests in Rawalakot and Mirpur, which prompted the strike.

Additionally, the JAAC has demanded that all companies, educational institutions, and transit be shut down entirely, leaving only emergency services and hospitals open.

Similar strikes in the past have led to altercations between demonstrators and law enforcement, and public meetings have been prohibited by Section 144.

At least one police official was killed and numerous others were injured in recent violent skirmishes between police and rights movement activists in Azad Kashmir during a wheel-jam and shutter-down strike that swept the region.

Under the auspices of the Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC), Sub-inspector Adnan Qureshi was sent to the town of Islamgarh to break up a protest for Muzaffarabad when he was shot in the chest.

With traders at the vanguard in most parts of the state, the JAAC has called for the elimination of privileged class privileges, the provision of electricity in AJK based on the cost of hydropower generation, and the subsidization of wheat flour.

A magistrate’s car near the Poonch-Kotli route was among the several vehicles smashed by the rowdy demonstrators. Additionally, all of the AJK’s markets, commercial hubs, offices, schools, and dining establishments were closed.

After the administration agreed to their requests, the action committee put an end to the protests in AJK later on May 14.