Areesh
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Again, the free press is reporting on what is happening in Kashmir. We don't know the amount of suffering of the Kashmiris trapped on the other side of the border. Do they even have Internet? Roads? Electricity? Institutions?
Free press is reporting internet shutdown to curb civilian protests. Freedom
Something which never happened on March 23 or August 14 in AJK or GB.
As for your questions about electricity, institutions, roads, internet. Not my problem if you are another one of those bharatis who spend their life living under a rock.
However here are some facts for your life full of lies and ignorance.
Muzaffarabad, with a population of just over 6,00,000, looks cleaner than Srinagar (Azad Kashmir has 10 districts with an estimated population over three million in 2009). Even during my previous visit in 2004, I found that the stories of “under development in Azad Kashmir,” fed to us on this side, are off the mark. This time, I noticed road connectivity and power supply to houses even on the upper reaches of a hill. In contrast, many villages in Jammu and Kashmir even today are without basic facilities. Neither does Muzaffarabad seem to be lagging behind in education and health compared to the Indian side of Jammu and Kashmir though progress is more in tune with Pakistani literacy rates. In the past few years the development in these two sectors has been rapid. The literacy rate in Azad Kashmir has touched 65 per cent which is higher than for any other area in Pakistan. In conversations, both the young and old in Muzaffarabad say that Pakistan has “never discriminated” against the region.
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/The-other-Kashmir/article13834085.ece
IOK Behind AJK in Education:
http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/kashmir/jk-behind-azad-kashmir-in-education-ranking/186081.html
AJK ahead of rest of Pakistan in Education
https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/08/22/ajk-tops-district-education-ranking-2017/
Villagers of IOK desire facilities they see across the border in Azad Kashmir
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/vill...see-across-the-border-in-azad-kashmir.533689/
Now coming back to this freedom report BS. Print this report on a piece of paper and shove it where sun doesn't shine since we all know the miserable condition of IOK. So lets not be a fool and compare the two places. A peaceful region like AJK has no comparison with a hell like IOK after all.