There are countless local & international reports on the 'free media' & 'freedom' in Indian Occupied Kashmir.
So far as AJK is concerned; it has just as much or just as little free media as the rest of Pakistan !
If you can't see 'much news' coming out of AJK that isn't my concern; use the search function on 'GOOGLE' instead of gathering your information from such beat-up article like your previous attempts at talking about the Kashmir Affairs Committee, the Council or who gets to fire or hire the PM & the President of AJK !
There are no Chinese Troops in Pakistan barring the sensationalist BS that gets printed in trashy articles; I was in AJK last year and in GB a few years back & unless the Chinese learned how to make Invisibility Cloaks....they were no where to be seen & 5000 troops is not a small number to hide !
There are Chinese Engineers working in Pakistan from the Punjab to Baluchistan & up North along the Karakorum Highway !
I don't know whether AJK's population is mostly Sunni or not because Pakistan hasn't carried out a census on sectarian lines so far as I can tell though I would not be surprised to find out that they are because Muslims the world over are overwhelmingly so mostly Sunnis; but if the implied assertion here is that the Pakistan Army or the Establishment or whatever you wish to call your imagined Bogeyman here, is systematically eliminating Shias in AJK then all I'd say is 'Atleast try to THINK your arguments through before making them' !
Different reports, articles & the sort have time & time again asserted that GB is a majority Shia administrative unit with a strong Ismaili minority (who too are Shias) & a smaller Sunni minority; the X Corp of the Pakistan Army is deployed across AJK & GB. And one of the most illustrious units of that X Corp are the North Light Infantry battalions under the Northern Command who are predominantly recruited from the same Shia & Ismaili majority GB. If the Establishment was doing what it is accused of doing there would be at least a 'single' instance of protest or internal fighting or something to the effect in the Army at large (which has a lot of Shias in it), the Police (which too is predominantly Shia in GB & has Shias in it in AJK) & the NLI or are you suggesting that the Army that failed to clamp down on talks of alleged 5000 Chinese troops being present in Pakistan suddenly became so good at concealment that no one was able to get a peep out of anyone about any Sectarian Tensions within the Army, the Police & the NLI ?
And this keeping in mind that whereas the AJK & GB nationals & domicile holders are less than 3-4% of Pakistan they are more than 10% of the Army !
Conversely Indian Occupied Kashmir is majority Sunni as well with Shia minority just like AJK & the rest of Pakistan & the majority of the Muslim World !
So far as the Ethnic Makeup of Kashmir is concerned; AJK was never a Koshur speaking area but always a Pahari speaking area. The Majority speaks Pahari there neither Koshur (like the Valley) nor Punjabi but there are Koshur & Punjabi speaking people there because of close geographical proximity that has existed for centuries & isn't a new phenomenon !
Why do you think my ancestors came to Punjab & didn't go to North Indian in the late 1800s ? Why do you think that tens of thousands of them did the same & now there descendants number in the hundreds of thousands ? Because Kashmir is geographically, ethnically, linguistically, culturally & religiously contiguous to Punjab & KPK !
If you want to know more about the internal ethnic make-up of AJK you can ask @
waz - He is an AJK National !
