Police officers stand on a bridge, as they stop the protesters of the Awami Action Committee, during a protest following a shutter-down strike in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Pakistan October 1, 2025. REUTERS/Naseer ud Din
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -At least eight people have been killed in four days of violent protests in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, Pakistani officials said on Thursday, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif set up a committee of senior officials to resolve the ongoing clashes.
Only limited information has so far reached the outside world about the full extent of the protests, which broke out when thousands of people from nearby towns converged on regional capital Muzafarabad on Monday.
