Rawalakot, July 5 -- Tensions have escalated dramatically across Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) following a massive protest call by the Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) for Sunday, directly defying the heavy-handed state apparatus.

The rights group, leading a widespread agitation against administrative failures, has thrown down a direct challenge to Islamabad's severe crackdown, demanding the immediate release of its unlawfully arrested leaders and activists.

In a massive escalation of this ongoing civil uprising against Pakistani rule, a grand public gathering of nearly 40,000 people, comprising children, women, elderly, and youth, has hit the streets at the Sardar Ghulam Hussain Khan Sports Stadium in Abba...