Brussels, July 6 -- Jamil Maqsood, President of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP) and currently living in exile in Belgium, has issued a scathing critique of the judicial and administrative structure in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK).

In a comprehensive legal paper titled "The Incapability of the Judicial System in Pakistan-Occupied Jammu & Kashmir Under Pakistani Administrative Control: A Constitutional and Legal Critique", Maqsood exposed what he describes as a facade of autonomy and a systematically weakened judiciary under the tight control of Islamabad.

Maqsood argued that although Pakistan claims PoJK as a self-governed region, the ground reality is one of total subjuga...