JKJAAC Human Rights Cell Issues Urgent Briefing Note for Members of the British Parliament on AJK Human Rights and Humanitarian Protection Emergency
JKJAAC Human Rights Cell has issued an urgent Briefing Note for Members of the British Parliament, calling for immediate parliamentary, diplomatic and consular action over the worsening human rights and humanitarian protection emergency in Pakistan-administered Azad Jammu & Kashmir.
6/23/20261 min read
The Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee — JKJAAC Human Rights Cell, together with British Kashmiri civil society representatives, has issued an urgent briefing note for Members of the British Parliament calling for immediate parliamentary, diplomatic and consular action in response to the worsening human rights and humanitarian protection emergency in Pakistan-administered Azad Jammu & Kashmir.
The briefing note has been prepared for Members of the UK Parliament, Peers, the APPG on Kashmir, the Joint Committee on Human Rights, the Foreign Affairs Committee, and constituency MPs representing British Kashmiri communities.
The document highlights serious concerns including the reported communications blackout, humanitarian blockade, mass detentions, reported killings, disappearances, repression of peaceful assembly, and risks to British nationals and families in AJK.
JKJAAC Human Rights Cell states that the crisis is not only a local protest-rights issue, but also a serious humanitarian, consular and human-rights concern directly affecting UK residents, British citizens, and families across British Kashmiri communities.
The briefing notes that many British Kashmiri families have been unable to contact parents, children, siblings and close relatives in AJK since the reported shutdown of internet, mobile-phone and communications services from 6 June 2026. It also raises concern that British nationals may be trapped, detained, injured, missing, hospitalised or prevented from leaving affected areas.
The briefing further records concerns regarding alleged family-based reprisals against British Kashmiri human rights activists, mass arrests, missing persons, lack of complete custody lists, restrictions on food and medicines, and the criminalisation of peaceful civil-rights mobilisation.
JKJAAC Human Rights Cell respectfully urges Members of Parliament to raise the issue urgently with the Foreign Secretary, demand emergency consular support for British nationals in AJK, table written parliamentary questions, seek an urgent question or Westminster Hall debate, engage UK parliamentary committees, and support urgent UN and international human rights action.
The core message to MPs is clear: British Kashmiris are not asking Parliament to take sides in a political dispute. They are asking Parliament to protect British nationals, uphold human rights, defend the right to peaceful protest, oppose transnational repression, and help prevent a humanitarian protection emergency from worsening.
JKJAAC calls on the UK Government to press for restoration of communications, protection of British nationals, humanitarian access, publication of detainee and missing-person lists, an end to reprisals, and peaceful negotiations.
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