New Delhi, July 31 -- Pakistan occupied Kashmir(PoK) has long been projected by Islamabad as a symbol of ideological fidelity, a living testament to its claim over the larger Kashmir question. Yet beneath the rhetoric lies a territory that has become Pakistan's most enduring vulnerability - a wound it cannot heal, a contradiction it cannot resolve, and a people it has never truly embraced.
PoK today is a region suspended between history and ambition, seized in the tumult of 1947, frozen in an unresolved past, and administered with a mixture of coercion, neglect and strategic opportunism.In PoK, Pakistani security forces have killed an estimated 75-90 civilian protesters over the past five years, amid a sharp escalation in violent crackdown...