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Pakistan is facing the brunt of rising inflation, the effect of which is now visible on its roads too. Actually, due to rising inflation in PoK, people's anger has erupted against the government. Protests are taking place everywhere and incidents of confrontation and stone pelting have come to light. However, the big thing is that the Indian tricolor is also visible in these demonstrations taking place in PoK. Let us tell you that the Joint Awami Action Committee had called for a protest outside the PoK Assembly on Saturday, May 11, against price rise in PoK.
After this, Section 144 has been implemented in PoK. So that people do not come out of their homes. Due to this, the anger of the local people erupted on Friday itself and a large number of people took to the streets in areas like the capital Muzaffarabad, Mirpur and Dadiyal. PoK and Indian national flags were seen in the hands of the crowd. Actually, due to rising inflation in PoK, people are angry and protests are taking place in PoK against inflation. The prices of petrol, diesel and other essential commodities are skyrocketing. Even food items are being imported from China. Due to this, the committee had announced a demonstration in the state.
Protests were planned for Saturday (May 11) over taxes imposed by Pakistan and rising prices, but the deployment of additional forces and the arrest of 70 activists angered people and they took to the streets on Friday itself. The protesters allegedly pelted stones at the security personnel and clashed with them.
According to Pakistani media, the police have detained seventy activists to stop the 'long march' announced by the Jammu and Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee. According to media reports, police also fired tear gas shells to disperse the protesting crowd, some of which fell on a nearby school and injured several girls.
According to the report of the news agency, at present the soldiers of Front Corps, Rangers and Quick Response Force (QRF) of Punjab province are on the streets of the area. In Muzaffarabad (administrative center of POK) in the early hours of Thursday, police raided the house of a business leader Shaukat Nawaz Mir as well as the houses of several other people of the Action Committee.
Pakistanis are struggling with backbreaking inflation, a situation made worse by the stringent conditions imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) while approving the $3 billion financial aid package. Problems have increased due to increase in electricity rates in Pakistan and people have been forced to take to the streets.