Srinagar, June 25 -- The ongoing crackdown on the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) has once again exposed an uncomfortable truth: whenever the people of the region raise their voices peacefully, the response from Pakistan's establishment is not dialogue but repression. The story unfolding in PoJK is not merely about arrests and protests. It is about a state machinery that appears increasingly intolerant of dissent and a military establishment that, according to critics, has long sought to control every political narrative in the region. The treatment meted out to the Joint Awami Action Committee has reinforced a growing perception among many residents that the people of PoJK are expected to...